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Recent Examples of Synonyms for malcontents
Noun
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Tiny crabs skitter the shoreline.—
Ryan Ballogg
Updated February 26,
Miami Herald,
26 Feb. 2026 -
Sewage impacts could reach the Chesapeake Bay Naujoks stressed how important the Potomac is to the region, saying people depend on it for drinking water, tourism, trade and commercial fishing of species including blue catfish, rockfish, crabs and oysters.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA Today,
19 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Berets were fashionable among radicals and the very old.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 Feb. 2026
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Wood argues that colleges are not only staffed with a disproportionate number of radicals who indoctrinate the students but also have turned everything from dormitory management to the dining halls over to the left.—
Jay Caspian Kang,
New Yorker,
17 Feb. 2026
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However, those cynics didn’t sound as enlightened when the Rockets were up 18 early in the fourth quarter Saturday night.—
William Guillory,
New York Times,
22 Feb. 2026
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This is not a home for doomers, cynics, or know-it-alls.—
Daphne Koller,
Big Think,
29 Jan. 2026
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has played down the violence as the work of a small group of extremists.—
Julia Frankel,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Feb. 2026
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The gorgeous, haunting animation allows the filmmakers to precisely recreate the Lebanese battlefield and grapple with the events that led to the infamous massacre of Palestinian refugees at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camp outside of Beirut at the hands of Lebanese Christian extremists.—
David Faris,
TheWeek,
24 Feb. 2026
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While speaking about naysayers who have been taking to the internet to poke fun at Kelly's weight loss, Morgan shared a video that Kelly recently posted on social media in response.—
Tracy Wright,
FOXNews.com,
23 Feb. 2026
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In a city full of naysayers, Brunson somehow appears to have none at all.—
Tom Kludt,
Vanity Fair,
17 Feb. 2026
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Investigators are not ruling out sabotage carried out by anarchists, citing similarities to the sabotage that targeted the French network during the 2024 Paris Olympics, when France’s high-speed train lines were targeted by multiple malicious acts including arson.—
Antonia Mortensen,
CNN Money,
7 Feb. 2026
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The loudest calls for taxing the ultra-rich amid this year’s Davos summit aren’t coming from hooded anarchists or revolutionary socialists, but from the one-percenters themselves.—
Joe Wilkins Published Jan 22,
Futurism,
22 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Although many say GOs are vital to promote the Earth’s decarbonization, the system has its detractors.—
Jennifer McDermott,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Feb. 2026
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Amid detractors, financial obstacles and technical challenges, the construction of the Statue of Liberty becomes a constant battle.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
20 Feb. 2026
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And in recent weeks, AI bubble pessimists have rallied around Michael Burry, the hedge-fund investor who made hundreds of millions of dollars betting against the housing market in 2008.—
Bobby Allyn,
NPR,
23 Nov. 2025
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While optimistic economists argue that America can grow its way out of a debt crisis, pessimists believe the real outcome will be somewhat less popular.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
17 Nov. 2025
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