as in left
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
President Trump has railed against Harvard, calling it a hotbed of liberalism and antisemitism.
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Darlene Superville, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2025
Abundance is a call to focus on building effective government programs and renewing liberalism through sound policy.
—Ron Fong, Oc Register, 21 May 2025
In too many democracies—Romania very much among them—liberalism has been marred by corruption tolerated or even encouraged by those in power.
—MSNBC Newsweek, 20 May 2025
But Johnson’s qualitative liberalism came with costs.
—Kevin M. Schultz, The Conversation, 8 May 2025
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Darlene Superville, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2025
Abundance is a call to focus on building effective government programs and renewing liberalism through sound policy.
—Ron Fong, Oc Register, 21 May 2025
In too many democracies—Romania very much among them—liberalism has been marred by corruption tolerated or even encouraged by those in power.
—MSNBC Newsweek, 20 May 2025
But Johnson’s qualitative liberalism came with costs.
—Kevin M. Schultz, The Conversation, 8 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for liberalism
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Marcelo Mayer stepped into the void left at third base when Alex Bregman went down with a quad injury, making his major league debut, and has hit .222, with an OBP of less than .300.—
Dan Freedman,
Forbes.com,
9 June 2025
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Here's the shot with corrections in Adobe Lightroom on the left and DxO PureRAW using DeepPrime 3 on the right: The DxO process yields more detail, for example, in the cheek freckles, while removing more luminance noise.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
6 June 2025
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“Liberalism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/liberalism. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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