lefties

plural of lefty

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Noun
  • The economy, juiced by billions of dollars in funding from Brussels, was growing fast after recovering from the 2008 global financial crisis, which had damaged the political fortunes of Hungary’s socialists, in power when the crisis hit.
    New York Times, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Johnson raised concerns that nuking the filibuster could one day empower socialists, in an appearance on C-SPAN Thursday.
    Steven T. Dennis, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In 1950, Secretary of State Dean Acheson issued new regulations that prevented communists, and people suspected of being communists, from obtaining passports.
    Time, Time, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Between 1950 and 1954, Senator Joseph McCarthy's lists of communists were actually just targets.
    Alexis Coe, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
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“Lefties.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lefties. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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