left-winger

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Recent Examples of left-winger The Japan left-winger was substituted in the second half of the Chelsea match. Andy Naylor, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for left-winger
Noun
  • That includes Valentín, a leftist whose own dreams of revolution have been cut short by the dictatorship’s crackdowns.
    Blythe Marks, Them., 17 Oct. 2025
  • His cultural critiques were unmistakably right-wing, but his scorn for the corporatization of universities might have come from the mouth of a disaffected leftist.
    Emma Green, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Even John Stuart Mill, the model nineteenth-century liberal and a feminist, did not think that Indians in British India were ready for free speech.
    Louis Menand, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Navratilova is known as a highly outspoken liberal as a former athlete.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Sensing a potential early turning point in the game, Wilson deployed his best lefty, Gabe Speier.
    Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • But the lefty seems bound for a huge payday on the open market.
    Zach Pressnell, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025

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“Left-winger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/left-winger. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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