as in hawks
one who urges or attempts to cause a war
jingoists applauding the appointment of a hard-line foreign minister
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hawks
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At least in the world of counterfactuals, there is an alternative reality in which a Democratic President, during the nineteen-nineties or the two-thousands, defied the deficit hawks and also adopted a more skeptical approach to globalization.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
23 Feb. 2026 -
By mid-February, raptors, including hawks and eagles, begin migrating north.—
Jessica Safavimehr,
Southern Living,
22 Feb. 2026
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“Jingoists.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jingoists. Accessed 26 Feb. 2026.
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