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liberalness

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  1. liberalism
  2. progressivism
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  • This switching of places is especially true of Islam seen as an alien but also more virile force than Western liberalism, one whose power thus needs to be countered by its own weapons of solidarity and domination.
    — Faisal Devji, Time, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The following year she was elected to the Italian parliament for the maverick Radical Party, a bastion of anticlericalism, civil libertarianism, feminism, liberalism and radicalism in Italy.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2026
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  • The faces of modern progressivism If the leaders of 20th-century progressivism read like a who’s who of the day, the same can be said of their 21st-century counterparts.
    — Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 Sep. 2026
  • The fight between El-Sayed, who hails from the left flank of the Democratic Party, and moderate Stevens drew national attention as a kind of litmus test of progressivism in a key battleground state.
    — Clara Hendrickson, Freep.com, 28 Aug. 2026
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