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If neocon values are worth applying to the world, they should be applied consistently.
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Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 27 Aug. 2025
Maybe one day democracy really will bloom like wildflowers across the vast deserts of the Middle East, just as the neocons envisioned.
—Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 June 2025
The neocons rose to prominence in the wake of two unique events.
—Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
Lippmann, it should be noted, was originally a liberal internationalist whose views were not all that different from those of the modern neocons.
—Max Boot, Foreign Affairs, 10 Mar. 2023
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Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 27 Aug. 2025
Maybe one day democracy really will bloom like wildflowers across the vast deserts of the Middle East, just as the neocons envisioned.
—Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 June 2025
The neocons rose to prominence in the wake of two unique events.
—Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
Lippmann, it should be noted, was originally a liberal internationalist whose views were not all that different from those of the modern neocons.
—Max Boot, Foreign Affairs, 10 Mar. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for neocon
neoconservative
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Bolton, the hawkish neoconservative who was Trump’s longest-serving White House national security adviser during his first term, had advocated for regime change in Venezuela for years and worked in the first term to support opposition efforts to overthrow Maduro.—
Garrett M. Graff,
Wired News,
6 Jan. 2026
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In the past two weeks, prominent neoconservatives Bret Stephens and Elliott Abrams have argued in favor of overthrowing Maduro outright in columns in the New York Times and Foreign Affairs.—
Max Saltman,
CNN Money,
22 Nov. 2025
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“Neocon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/neocon. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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