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noun

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Adjective
  • Not surprisingly, the court’s conservative supermajority upheld the Tennessee law by a 6-3 vote, with the trio of more liberal justices dissenting.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 1 July 2025
  • For those of us in the trenches of X, the meltdown was a familiar sight, echoing the contempt that the tech elite have directed at San Francisco for years, with the endless lamentations of anarchy at pharmacy branches in Union Square or the liberal policies of politicians like Aaron Peskin.
    Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • Kwan's trade value is high, and the Reds may be unwilling to part with much of their farm system to acquire the lefty.
    Hunter Mulholland, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 July 2025
  • Crow-Armstrong went deep again in the seventh off lefty reliever Anthony Misiewicz to put the Cubs up 7-1.
    Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2025
Adjective
  • What choice would a young reactionary iconoclast have but to veer right?
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2025
  • The Sun Devils were instead forced to punt and a reactionary firestorm began on social media.
    Danny Davis, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • Two Prosecutors, his adaptation of Georgy Demidov’s eponymous novel, is set in the Soviet Union in 1937 during Stalin’s Great Purge and tells the story of a young local prosecutor and dedicated communist who starts to question his undying faith in the regime.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 9 July 2025
  • Inspired by the Popular Front in the Spanish Civil War, Jessica became a communist and, later, a journalist.
    Judy Berman, Time, 27 June 2025
Adjective
  • Mamdani, who espouses more progressive socialist-leaning views, wants to make New York City more affordable for all, paid for through more taxes on wealthy individuals and corporations.
    Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • Despite representing a team that finished 11th in the most recent Liga F season, Jacinto finished in the top 10 for progressive passes (third, with 238), key passes (joint eighth, with 49), passes into the final third (fifth, with 221), and passes into the penalty area (seventh, with 43).
    Michael Cox, New York Times, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • And, sure, the message of affordability does resonate, but Democrats have worked for years, since the 2020 campaign, to not be associated as socialists, to not be associated to some of these positions that Mamdani has talked about, like defunding ICE, defunding the police.
    ABC News, ABC News, 29 June 2025
  • Ogles railed against the democratic socialist's win in social media posts.
    Joyce Orlando, Nashville Tennessean, 27 June 2025
Adjective
  • In addition, the independence of private universities and their tax status that encourages donations supports conservative and sectarian schools: Boston College, Notre Dame, Brigham Young, Liberty University, among many others.
    Peter Balakian July 9, Literary Hub, 9 July 2025
  • But even after the court's conservative majority limited the use of far-reaching injunctions that block enforcement of a policy across the country, the justices may continue to face a steady drumbeat of emergency appeals seeking their intervention.
    Melissa Quinn July 9, CBS News, 9 July 2025
Noun
  • This is a full-sensory experience with everything from the whir of roller skates on a retro rink to enough pink to make a flamingo blush.
    Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
  • Two neon pinks out of five. Money Inc. vs. The Natural Disasters Man, some powerful mullets at work in this one.
    Rory Appleton, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
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“Leftist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leftist. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.

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