politically correct

Definition of politically correctnext

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Recent Examples of politically correct The battle against politically correct art and its cultural milieu goes back to the 1990s. Diedrich Diederichsen, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2025 My peers love that Fuentes isn’t politically correct. Eli Thompson, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2025 Artists of color have long felt pressure to capitalize on the most marginal aspects of their biographies, as white critics (most critics) have remained eager to dismiss those who address race or colonialism in their work as politically correct or identity obsessed. Madeline Leung Coleman, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2025 Violent effect, not politically correct. Rebecca Schneid, Time, 6 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for politically correct
Recent Examples of Synonyms for politically correct
Adjective
  • That must be the unquestionable goal for next season.
    Nnamdi Onyeagwara, New York Times, 27 May 2026
  • Nonetheless, its power is unquestionable.
    Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 22 May 2026
Adjective
  • YouTube is the indisputable king of online video.
    Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • That Paul McCartney is a musical genius is indisputable.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 18 June 2026
Adjective
  • Injuries to three elite players were undeniable factors.
    Jon Wilner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2026
  • The sweep also sends an undeniable message to establishment Democrats in Washington, including House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who campaigned against Mamdani’s candidates and lost.
    Steve Peoples, Fortune, 24 June 2026
Adjective
  • The mark was federally registered in 2015 and has since achieved incontestable status, a legal designation that strengthens ownership rights.
    Bryan West, USA Today, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Many experts also remained in denial until evidence of Covid’s lethality and transmissibility became incontestable.
    David Blumenthal, STAT, 24 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • By slow degrees, Philip’s story shifts to accommodate the incontrovertible evidence of IP addresses and deciphered cryptography and Lucy struggles to keep up, let alone understand.
    Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 15 May 2026
  • What is incontrovertible, however, is how indispensable Guimaraes is for Howe and Newcastle.
    Chris Waugh, New York Times, 8 May 2026
Adjective
  • As a result, mathematical truths do not make up a unified whole of equally indubitable truths; instead, their status as knowledge varies gradually from doubtless facts to increasingly uncertain hypotheses.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 18 May 2026
  • The second route, and the route that makes indubitable sense, entails using the techniques and methods of psychology to gauge the performance of AI.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • So out of that pain, something positive did come out of that.
    Charlie Lapastora, CBS News, 20 June 2026
  • Under the Biden administration, the Department of Health and Human Services amended this rule, enabling kidney and liver transplants from HIV-positive donors to take place outside of research.
    Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 19 June 2026
Adjective
  • There are definite similarities to previous summer transfer sagas involving Barcelona which have dominated headlines before or during big international tournaments.
    Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 23 June 2026
  • The Landry family bid viewers farewell on Sunday night, with the season 4 finale of The Way Home serving as the definite conclusion to Hallmark's multigenerational, century spanning drama.
    Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 22 June 2026

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“Politically correct.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/politically%20correct. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.

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