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Recent Examples of nonconservative
But, unlike real experts, Heritage and Feulner’s promise was that every problem could be solved with a conservative solution, or that every nonconservative solution would be a disaster.
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E.j. Fagan, Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2025
McDaniel and her advisers have pushed for some nonconservative outlets to host the party’s debates, arguing that many independent and Republican voters can be reached through these channels and that Republicans should not limit themselves to right-leaning outlets.
—Josh Dawsey, Washington Post, 2 May 2023
In the weeks leading up to the election, polls showed that millions of Iranians planned to boycott the vote after the country’s election supervisory body disqualified nearly all nonconservative candidates.
—WSJ, 18 June 2021
Iranians voted Friday in a presidential election that was tarnished by the state’s disqualifications of prominent nonconservative candidates before the vote, and by accusations that the contest was engineered to deliver victory to a hard-line ally of Iran’s supreme leader.
—Washington Post, 18 June 2021
The refusal of nonconservative networks and publications to report on the story of Hunter Biden’s Ukraine and China business shenanigans in October made clear that most journalists believed their primary obligation was to defeat Trump, not report the news.
—Jonathan Tobin, Washington Examiner, 5 Nov. 2020
Even now, wild posting contains a hint of defiance aimed at stirring a response from nonconservative audiences.
—Gino Sesto, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
In the weeks before the vote, the country’s election supervisory body had disqualified nearly all nonconservative candidates.
—WSJ, 19 June 2021
After a reformist candidate also dropped out Wednesday, Abdolnaser Hemmati, who served more than two years as governor of Iran’s Central Bank, remained as the only nonconservative candidate in the race and Raisi’s only real challenger.
—Washington Post, 17 June 2021
E.j. Fagan, Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2025
McDaniel and her advisers have pushed for some nonconservative outlets to host the party’s debates, arguing that many independent and Republican voters can be reached through these channels and that Republicans should not limit themselves to right-leaning outlets.
—Josh Dawsey, Washington Post, 2 May 2023
In the weeks leading up to the election, polls showed that millions of Iranians planned to boycott the vote after the country’s election supervisory body disqualified nearly all nonconservative candidates.
—WSJ, 18 June 2021
Iranians voted Friday in a presidential election that was tarnished by the state’s disqualifications of prominent nonconservative candidates before the vote, and by accusations that the contest was engineered to deliver victory to a hard-line ally of Iran’s supreme leader.
—Washington Post, 18 June 2021
The refusal of nonconservative networks and publications to report on the story of Hunter Biden’s Ukraine and China business shenanigans in October made clear that most journalists believed their primary obligation was to defeat Trump, not report the news.
—Jonathan Tobin, Washington Examiner, 5 Nov. 2020
Even now, wild posting contains a hint of defiance aimed at stirring a response from nonconservative audiences.
—Gino Sesto, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
In the weeks before the vote, the country’s election supervisory body had disqualified nearly all nonconservative candidates.
—WSJ, 19 June 2021
After a reformist candidate also dropped out Wednesday, Abdolnaser Hemmati, who served more than two years as governor of Iran’s Central Bank, remained as the only nonconservative candidate in the race and Raisi’s only real challenger.
—Washington Post, 17 June 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonconservative
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Green Berets are training alongside Mexico’s elite marine infantry units in conventional and nonconventional combat techniques.—
Risa Brooks,
Foreign Affairs,
8 Apr. 2025
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After building two lucrative businesses, the serial entrepreneur and attorney set her sights on ensuring her family was also a success in a nonconventional way.—
Jasmine Browley,
Essence,
6 Oct. 2024
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During his first five-year contract, Bennett, his staff and the board winnowed down the company’s budget to better match annual expenses and ticket sales, while also creating the Detour series of smaller, nontraditional opera works to expand the company’s audience.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Aug. 2025
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From start to finish, our nontraditional wedding showed me that the right relationship, much like the correct condiment, makes life’s chaotically sandwiched moments go down a little easier.—
Heather Schroering,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
6 Aug. 2025
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It is generally accepted in classical liberal economic thinking that the state should only intervene where there has been a market failure, i.e., where the free market is unable to produce a socially desirable outcome.—
Chris Deubert,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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PiS accuse their liberal opponents of trying to subvert the will of the people and their supporters plan to march in the capital on inauguration day.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
6 Aug. 2025
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The erosion of support was the result of a miscalculation: renewable advocates aligned too closely with progressive climate politics, turning an industry once embraced by all into a left-wing cause, alienating conservatives along the way.—
Leo Schwartz,
Fortune,
6 Aug. 2025
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Part of that is a rejection of decades of progressivism and progressive values, which had become the Establishment.—
Chris Lee,
Vulture,
6 Aug. 2025
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They have been weakened by rising antiestablishment beliefs on the left and the right, notably among younger voters, and by the sentiment that parties are not as essential to ideas or governing anymore.—
Adam Nagourney,
BostonGlobe.com,
4 May 2020
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That evolved into a mini-conference series featuring antiestablishment scientists that support Glassman’s views on health care.—
Tessa Love,
Outside Online,
16 Jan. 2020
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The dangerous mind battle affects the already unorthodox police consultant.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
13 Aug. 2025
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Chris Wright took to social media in 2019 to market his oil-and-gas company in an unorthodox way: by taking a swig of fracking fluid from a dixie cup.—
Lily Ogburn,
Forbes.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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And when goals did go in, the unconventional trajectory of the Jabulani was oddly fascinating.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
16 Aug. 2025
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The hero’s journey on this show is achieving their unconventional American dream.—
Giana Levy,
Variety,
16 Aug. 2025
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As Peter Singer has argued for decades, doing the most good shouldn’t be radical.—
Alexander Puutio,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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Some other notable attacks at US military bases in recent years include: On November 5, 2009, an Army psychiatrist with radical Islamist beliefs opened fire at a processing center at Fort Hood, a major US Army post, in Texas, killing 13 people and an unborn child, and wounding more than 30 others.—
Hanna Park,
CNN Money,
7 Aug. 2025
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“Nonconservative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonconservative. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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