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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
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Tyler Robinson, 22, an extreme leftist who hated Kirk, has been charged with Kirk’s murder.—
Peter Lucas,
Boston Herald,
27 Sep. 2025
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In his Monday monologue, Kimmel took on right-wing pundits who were looking to frame the shooter who killed pundit Charlie Kirk as a leftist, when the alleged killer’s actual motivation is still unclear.—
Michael Schneider,
Variety,
18 Sep. 2025
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Speaking with The Athletic last month, Niebla labeled him a present-day version of former Cleveland reliever Andrew Miller, the hard-throwing lefty who made four multi-inning appearances in the 2016 World Series and helped revolutionize modern bullpen usage.—
Dennis Lin,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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But according to both Boone and Fried, the lefty was only ever going to face one batter in that top of the seventh.—
Jackson Roberts,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
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The dark lavender-pink petals mature and fade to a soft pink, revealing a cluster of yellow stamens in the center.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
5 Oct. 2025
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In April, the gardens were full of pinks and yellows and whites, all framed by views of the palace, the city, or the high mountains.—
Fiona Mozley,
Travel + Leisure,
4 Oct. 2025
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There’s a scene with a military leader telling Murrow’s producer Fred Friendly to back down, and that Murrow was basically a communist.—
Mike Fleming Jr,
Deadline,
2 Oct. 2025
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Antisemites denounced Jews both as capitalists and as communists—two creeds international in scope.—
Ian Buruma,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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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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Mamdani, the Democratic socialist, won a surprising victory in the New York mayoral primary earlier this year in part for unconventional ad spots that broke through the clutter.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
1 Oct. 2025
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The former vice president also gave a less-than-effusive endorsement of Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic socialist running to become the next New York City mayor.—
Mabinty Quarshie,
The Washington Examiner,
23 Sep. 2025
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“Pinko.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pinko. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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