feminist

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Recent Examples of feminist Within the story, there’s no questioning of this tradition, feminist or otherwise — there’s only its pursuit and the esteem in which the onnagatas’ artistry is held. Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 29 Oct. 2025 Beauvoir’s letters show a softer, surprisingly endearing side of the pioneering feminist, and Acocella mines them for the delightful and the dirty. Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2025 An active feminist, Cardinale was a UNESCO goodwill ambassador for the Defense of Women’s Rights from 2000, while in 2011, she was named by The Los Angeles Times Magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful women in the history of cinema. Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2025 Omisade Burney-Scott is a seventh-generation Black Southern feminist, storyteller and reproductive justice advocate on a mission to redefine menopause—and make room for the most marginalized in the now-booming menopause space. Carmen Rios, Flow Space, 5 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for feminist
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Noun
  • An optimist might suggest that a lower hiring rate is a shake-out from incredibly tight conditions during the pandemic.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2026
  • If the skeptics hadn’t outnumbered the optimists by many miles, there’s no way Rockefeller could have pieced together what became Standard Oil.
    John Tamny, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • While Sophie has a pragmatic approach to life, she’s complemented by Benedict, a dreamy idealist.
    Kat Moon, Time, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Yet this gloss dismisses something that might be better understood as a guiding principle, and suggests that criticism of Israel is an idealist’s liability rather than a stance with growing support among Democratic voters.
    Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2026

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“Feminist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/feminist. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.

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