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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Flexible moderates, roughly 35% of the survey’s respondents, are a middle-of-the-road group without strong political or religious motivations.—
George E. Mitchell,
The Conversation,
3 Apr. 2026 -
A lot has happened since to rattle the Senate's GOP moderates.—
Zachary Schermele,
USA Today,
2 Apr. 2026
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Now Los Angeles stands just two months from its own mayoral election, facing the question of whether the city wants to stand pat with Mayor Karen Bass, or make an ideological correction, turning to a centrist, a la San Francisco, or banking left, like New York.—
James Rainey,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Apr. 2026
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Austria's three-party centrist coalition is now joining the trend.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
27 Mar. 2026
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