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a political belief stressing progress, the essential goodness of humankind, and individual freedom
liberalism had always claimed to stand for the greatest social good
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Recent Examples of liberalism
On these matters, he is not guided by rational cost-benefit analysis or dealmaking so much as by real animus against democracy, liberalism, and the West, together with a determination to resurrect the Russian empire.
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Michael McFaul, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2025
The original Nature article that features the heatmaps examines how the two main political ideologies — liberalism and conservatism — reflect differences in the levels of moral compassion.
—Big Think, 3 Mar. 2025
Governments in North America and Europe have been passionately signaling principles of democracy and liberalism with one hand, and sending weapons and funds to advance Israel’s brutal military aims with the other.
—Hazlitt, 27 Feb. 2025
This departure from post-Berlin Wall universalist liberalism has been a long time in the making, and Vance's incisive rebuke of European elites powerfully drove home the point.
—Newsweek, 21 Feb. 2025
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Michael McFaul, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2025
The original Nature article that features the heatmaps examines how the two main political ideologies — liberalism and conservatism — reflect differences in the levels of moral compassion.
—Big Think, 3 Mar. 2025
Governments in North America and Europe have been passionately signaling principles of democracy and liberalism with one hand, and sending weapons and funds to advance Israel’s brutal military aims with the other.
—Hazlitt, 27 Feb. 2025
This departure from post-Berlin Wall universalist liberalism has been a long time in the making, and Vance's incisive rebuke of European elites powerfully drove home the point.
—Newsweek, 21 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for liberalism
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The debate among Democrats is emerging as Republicans go on offense on the matter, putting a spotlight on the left’s response.—
Mychael Schnell,
The Hill,
22 Apr. 2025
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The restaurant was small and noisy, but the glasses ignored two women talking loudly at a table to my left.—
David Owen,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2025
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“Liberalism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/liberalism. Accessed 6 May. 2025.
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