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noun

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Adjective
  • Leading the charge for the religious parents was lawyer Eric Baxter, who got a grilling from the court's three liberal justices.
    Nina Totenberg, NPR, 22 Apr. 2025
  • The court’s three liberal justices all vigorously challenged the parents’ request in the case, seeing opt-out rights as a slippery slope.
    Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 22 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In many ways, the lefty hitter brings everything the Blue Jays’ lineup lacks this year.
    Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Between them was lefty Gavin Sheets, the starter in the No. 2 spot.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Prepare these budgets in advance to avoid making reactionary measures if indeed Social Security payments are disrupted.
    True Tamplin, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
  • These weren’t reactionary opinions in the moment, either.
    Jeff Howe, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Into the mural, Rivera, a communist, painted a portrait Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Trepper, a Polish-Jewish communist, ran a network of Soviet spies across Western Europe, named by the Germans as the Red Orchestra, from the mid-1930s until 1942, when he was captured by the Gestapo and then escaped.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 11 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Francis, who was a progressive leader of the church, had appointed roughly 80% of the cardinals who are eligible to vote for the new pope, according to Miles Pattenden, historian of the Catholic Church at Oxford University.
    Megan Forrester, ABC News, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Joseph Tobin Joseph Tobin, 72, is a highly progressive candidate for the Church and has amassed substantial influence in the U.S.
    Solcyré Burga, Time, 21 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • That was demonstrated on the night before Newsom’s announcement when Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — two East Coast democratic socialists — attracted nearly 30,000 people at an anti-Trump rally in a Republican congressional district near Sacramento.
    George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2025
  • But America’s regulated economy and social safety net didn’t just materialize after an invasion of socialists from Mars.
    Mark Green, New York Daily News, 20 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Within days, a conservative legal group echoed Carr’s words in a petition asking the FCC, which governs broadcast licenses, to investigate whether coverage of Abrego Garcia on NBC, ABC and CBS distorted facts.
    Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Guidance from Dover , also out Thursday, was prudently conservative , and the market rewarded the stock.
    Kevin Stankiewicz,Matthew J. Belvedere, CNBC, 27 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The white facade of St. Peter’s glowed pink as the sun rose Saturday and hordes of mourners rushed into the square.
    Nicole Winfield and Colleen Barry, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Photo : Getty Images Malaki Starks: Customized Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Another draft pick, another endorsement of pink.
    Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 25 Apr. 2025
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“Leftist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leftist. Accessed 3 May. 2025.

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