as in moderate
a person who holds moderate views
since the party's middle-of-the-roaders often lack verve, the activists inevitably nominate some extremist who can't win in the general election
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Noun
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Advertisement While many Republicans view the ACA subsidies as a temporary pandemic-era measure that should now lapse, a handful of GOP moderates in Congress have broken ranks.—
Nik Popli,
Time,
1 Oct. 2025 -
What To Know The poll shows that Spanberger leads among younger voters, women, non-white voters, college graduates, and moderates, while Earle-Sears holds advantages with older voters, men, white voters, and those without a college degree.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
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Loyalists have defected, and centrists have veered right.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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At least eight centrist or retiring Democratic senators need to break with Schumer to pass the funding stopgap.—
Alexander Bolton,
The Hill,
26 Sep. 2025
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