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Recent Examples of leftist
Literary Hub, 21 May 2026
The Spanish court said on Tuesday that Zapatero was being investigated for allegedly leading an influence-peddling and money-laundering network, in another blow to the leftist government beset by corruption scandals.
—Reuters, NBC news, 20 May 2026
Ittiḥād-i javān, Javānān-i imrūz and Tihran muṣavvar were shuttered, as was the leftist Pighām-i Imrūz, the tabloid Firdusī, and Sipıd va sıyāh, a publication which had the distinction of also having been banned by the previous regime.
—April White, JSTOR Daily, 20 May 2026
Spain clinches top spot for LGBTIA protections For the first time in a decade, Malta lost its spot atop the rankings, with Spain surpassing the archipelago under the leadership of leftist prime minister, Pedro Sánchez.
—Drew Pittock, USA Today, 14 May 2026
The strategy’s top threat categories align with the president’s pet issues, including the villainizing of Democrats and leftist dissent.
—Hannah Allam, ProPublica, 14 May 2026
The more liberal the target (liberal, not leftist), the better.
—Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 13 May 2026
The Greens have embraced a radical mix of leftist politics and pro-Palestinian activism — sprinkled with just a dash of their titular environmentalism.
—Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 7 May 2026
Meanwhile, the leftist-podcast bros have been making common cause with the wine moms for a while now.
—Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 7 May 2026
Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 2 May 2026
Jeremy Corbyn, the septuagenarian British leftist, who had already arrived in Havana by plane, met with high-ranking Communist Party officials in the presidential palace.
—Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 23 Apr. 2026
Melton’s Austin starts as a baby leftist crying over a dead bee, then becomes torn between the authentic Korean cultural education Chairwoman Park claims to offer him and the increasingly ambitious Ashley, who wants to leverage Austin’s heritage for her own personal gain.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2026
Petro, a leftist who was a member of a rebel group in his youth, has attempted to stage peace talks with Colombia’s remaining rebel groups under a strategy known as total peace.
—Manuel Rueda, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2026
In nearby Venezuela, the rise of President Hugo Chávez, a leftist, in 1999 meant oil and aid began flowing again.
—Carmen Sesin, NBC news, 16 Mar. 2026
Fearing a tougher-than-expected race for one of Texas’s two Senate seats, Republicans are trying to cast Democratic candidate James Talarico as a radical leftist out of step with voters.
—Teo Armus, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2026
However, the National Republican Senatorial Committee has already blasted Peltola as a radical leftist in a new 45-second ad.
—Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2026
Rodríguez is a hard-line leftist with deeply anti-American views learned from her father, a Marxist guerrilla commander who died at the hands of Venezuelan security forces.
—Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
Adjective
But its narrative premise is almost an alibi, for the textual disjecta that accrete around it are seemingly endless, aleatory digressions into everything from film criticism and medical trivia to literary biography and leftist history.
—Literary Hub, 21 May 2026
The Spanish court said on Tuesday that Zapatero was being investigated for allegedly leading an influence-peddling and money-laundering network, in another blow to the leftist government beset by corruption scandals.
—Reuters, NBC news, 20 May 2026
Ittiḥād-i javān, Javānān-i imrūz and Tihran muṣavvar were shuttered, as was the leftist Pighām-i Imrūz, the tabloid Firdusī, and Sipıd va sıyāh, a publication which had the distinction of also having been banned by the previous regime.
—April White, JSTOR Daily, 20 May 2026
Spain clinches top spot for LGBTIA protections For the first time in a decade, Malta lost its spot atop the rankings, with Spain surpassing the archipelago under the leadership of leftist prime minister, Pedro Sánchez.
—Drew Pittock, USA Today, 14 May 2026
The strategy’s top threat categories align with the president’s pet issues, including the villainizing of Democrats and leftist dissent.
—Hannah Allam, ProPublica, 14 May 2026
The more liberal the target (liberal, not leftist), the better.
—Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 13 May 2026
The Greens have embraced a radical mix of leftist politics and pro-Palestinian activism — sprinkled with just a dash of their titular environmentalism.
—Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 7 May 2026
Meanwhile, the leftist-podcast bros have been making common cause with the wine moms for a while now.
—Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 7 May 2026
Noun
The last pope, Francis, could be filed away by American conservatives as an anti-American Latin American leftist, but Leo can’t.
—Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 2 May 2026
Jeremy Corbyn, the septuagenarian British leftist, who had already arrived in Havana by plane, met with high-ranking Communist Party officials in the presidential palace.
—Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 23 Apr. 2026
Melton’s Austin starts as a baby leftist crying over a dead bee, then becomes torn between the authentic Korean cultural education Chairwoman Park claims to offer him and the increasingly ambitious Ashley, who wants to leverage Austin’s heritage for her own personal gain.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2026
Petro, a leftist who was a member of a rebel group in his youth, has attempted to stage peace talks with Colombia’s remaining rebel groups under a strategy known as total peace.
—Manuel Rueda, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2026
In nearby Venezuela, the rise of President Hugo Chávez, a leftist, in 1999 meant oil and aid began flowing again.
—Carmen Sesin, NBC news, 16 Mar. 2026
Fearing a tougher-than-expected race for one of Texas’s two Senate seats, Republicans are trying to cast Democratic candidate James Talarico as a radical leftist out of step with voters.
—Teo Armus, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2026
However, the National Republican Senatorial Committee has already blasted Peltola as a radical leftist in a new 45-second ad.
—Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2026
Rodríguez is a hard-line leftist with deeply anti-American views learned from her father, a Marxist guerrilla commander who died at the hands of Venezuelan security forces.
—Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for leftist
Adjective
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Roughly a mile away as the crow flies is the site of what once was known as Mills College, which was a private, four-year liberal-arts college for women.—
Jay Caspian Kang,
New Yorker,
19 May 2026
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Politically, the industry was equal parts liberal and libertarian, and was perhaps best reflected by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, created to protect the denizens of cyberspace from an overreaching government.—
Jonathan Weber,
Fortune,
19 May 2026
Noun
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My general experience with campaigns is that winning candidates are almost always those who attack their opponents remorselessly and relentlessly — those who convince the voters that the other guy is a racist, a pinko, a warmonger, a coward, a crook, a greedy capitalist, whatever.—
Dan McLaughlin,
National Review,
18 Jan. 2024
Adjective
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Rising worries over crime are upending Latin American politics, propelling rightist candidates to the top of polls across the region.—
semafor.com,
semafor.com,
6 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Hitting as high as 99 mph on the radar gun, the 6-foot-9 lefty struck out the side in the fourth and the fifth.—
Justin Barrasso,
Boston Herald,
19 May 2026
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The club does not know when Fried will return, but the lefty said surgery is not being considered.—
Chris Kirschner,
New York Times,
16 May 2026
Adjective
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Amplifying concerns over Bolloré’s ideological agenda is the presence of CNews, France’s equivalent to Fox News which has, over the years, given a mainstream platform to reactionary, far right voices, within Canal+ Group.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
18 May 2026
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As with The Second Act, which sent up cancel culture, there’s a slightly reactionary vibe in the way the script has Stewart’s Madeleine represent a distinctly millennial kind of passive-aggressiveness.—
Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
17 May 2026
Noun
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To get a sentence like that in a communist, radically left-wing city of liberal lunatics is truly amazing.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
29 Apr. 2026
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The president has spent a decade calling his rivals communists and traitors, among other hyperbolic insults.—
Jonathan Chait,
The Atlantic,
28 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Like some progressive consensus at the center, but that's not there.—
Holly Ellyatt,
CNBC,
18 May 2026
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But California pushes its progressive tax system to the extreme.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
18 May 2026
Noun
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Patterson, born in New York City, was the daughter of a Black poet father and a German Jewish artist mother whose brother, a socialist in the French Resistance, had fought and then fled the Nazis.—
Emily Nussbaum,
New Yorker,
17 May 2026
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Until mid-April, Bass’s chief rival was presumed to be Nithya Raman, a city-council member who chairs the city’s Housing and Homelessness Committee and who identifies as a democratic socialist.—
Meghan Daum,
The Atlantic,
15 May 2026
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“Leftist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leftist. Accessed 24 May. 2026.
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