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Recent Examples of pinko
My general experience with campaigns is that winning candidates are almost always those who attack their opponents remorselessly and relentlessly — those who convince the voters that the other guy is a racist, a pinko, a warmonger, a coward, a crook, a greedy capitalist, whatever.
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Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 18 Jan. 2024
Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 18 Jan. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pinko
Noun
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The last pope, Francis, could be filed away by American conservatives as an anti-American Latin American leftist, but Leo can’t.—
Catherina Gioino,
Fortune,
2 May 2026
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Jeremy Corbyn, the septuagenarian British leftist, who had already arrived in Havana by plane, met with high-ranking Communist Party officials in the presidential palace.—
Gisela Salim-Peyer,
The Atlantic,
23 Apr. 2026
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Hitting as high as 99 mph on the radar gun, the 6-foot-9 lefty struck out the side in the fourth and the fifth.—
Justin Barrasso,
Boston Herald,
19 May 2026
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The club does not know when Fried will return, but the lefty said surgery is not being considered.—
Chris Kirschner,
New York Times,
16 May 2026
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Nearby, a breakfast nook mixes eras and textures effortlessly, with 1960s chairs featuring Lucite arms paired with a palette of browns and soft pinks that allows stripes, florals, and geometrics to mingle with ease.—
Kathryn O'Shea-Evans,
Better Homes & Gardens,
15 May 2026
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Style it with bright white sheets for a crisp color scheme, or pair it with a soft pink to accent the blooming pattern with a summery look.—
Caley Sturgill,
Southern Living,
13 May 2026
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To get a sentence like that in a communist, radically left-wing city of liberal lunatics is truly amazing.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
29 Apr. 2026
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The president has spent a decade calling his rivals communists and traitors, among other hyperbolic insults.—
Jonathan Chait,
The Atlantic,
28 Apr. 2026
Noun
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That film also saw the president's plane hijacked by dirty rotten commies (Gary Oldman this time instead of Nancy Stephens) and, just like with Pleasence, the President of the United States is ushered into an escape pod.—
Jordan Hoffman,
EW.com,
10 July 2025
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At other times, he’s called to action as a respected adventurer to investigate missing persons and MacGuffins, which generally leads to a series of globe-spanning scraps with members Axis Powers (sometimes cultists and commies too).—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
10 Dec. 2024
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Patterson, born in New York City, was the daughter of a Black poet father and a German Jewish artist mother whose brother, a socialist in the French Resistance, had fought and then fled the Nazis.—
Emily Nussbaum,
New Yorker,
17 May 2026
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Until mid-April, Bass’s chief rival was presumed to be Nithya Raman, a city-council member who chairs the city’s Housing and Homelessness Committee and who identifies as a democratic socialist.—
Meghan Daum,
The Atlantic,
15 May 2026
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“Pinko.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pinko. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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