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leftist

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noun

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Adjective
  • For liberal leaning shows, that number shrinks significantly, around 1 million for MSNBC and 558,000 for CNN.
    CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2025
  • The decision was 7-2 with two of the court’s liberal justices dissenting.
    Cate Martel, The Hill, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • Doing such a thing again, was a possibility, Baldelli acknowledged, especially with the lefties the Tigers have in their lineup, but after initially listing Friday’s starter as TBA, the Twins ended up opting for Festa.
    Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 28 June 2025
  • Pomeranz, a 36-year-old lefty who had not pitched in the majors since 2021, has struck out 20 and walked six in 21 ⅔ innings.
    Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2025
Adjective
  • The new title exemplifies one of Perry’s favorite moves, which is to present reactionary conservatism as simple common sense.
    Jia Tolentino, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
  • The team leaders and coaches have cautioned against being reactionary, encouraging small adjustments rather than major ones.
    Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • The Gestapo, or secret police, were often members of the Einsatzgruppen, essentially mobile killing squads who carried out the murders of Jews, Romani and communists in Eastern Europe.
    Boston Herald editorial staff, Boston Herald, 15 June 2025
  • Much of the story — about Murrow’s conflict with Senator Joseph McCarthy over his ongoing communist witch hunt — even played out on TV, via the anchor’s nightly newscasts.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 7 June 2025
Adjective
  • Bloomberg’s differences with Mamdani, who has expressed anti-Israel views on top of his progressive plan to make child care and buses free in the city, likely motivated him to get involved.
    Ross O'Keefe, The Washington Examiner, 20 June 2025
  • Wilcox’s 10 signings — mostly loans and free agents — formed the bedrock of a side that returned to the Premier League at the first time of asking, under a young, progressive manager in Russell Martin, who Wilcox also brought in from Swansea.
    Laurie Whitwell, New York Times, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • Cuomo’s polling advantage has narrowed in recent weeks as Mamdani, 33, a democratic socialist, built momentum and nabbed a key endorsement from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.
    Daniel Arkin, NBC news, 19 June 2025
  • Peasants rose up against the authorities, socialists and communists proliferated, and the government used horrific violence to control the populace.
    Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 18 June 2025
Adjective
  • Consider that for the average university lab, the indirect costs alone—including office support, computing, compliance, instruments, space and administrative support—average $8 million annually, and that's a conservative estimate.
    Siamak Baharloo, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
  • Trump and Bondi, though, praised the court's conservative majority for limiting a federal judge's power to block a president's policy nationwide.
    Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • Sunset blush: Inspired by the fiery hues of the sky just before twilight, this blush style combines the warmth of orange with the radiance of pink for a sweet glow.
    Jeanne Ballion, Vogue, 18 June 2025
  • For instance, there are strong pinks from the bloodleaf (Iresine rhizomatosa) and the ‘Electric Pink’ cabbage palm (Cordyline banksia), and deep purple from Joyful Jasper, a rhizomatous begonia (Begonia ‘Joyful Jasper’).
    Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 June 2025
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“Leftist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leftist. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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