progressivism

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Recent Examples of progressivism The progressivism and titillation of The White Lotus go toward the disintegration of American family and national relations. Armond White, National Review, 9 Apr. 2025 During the meeting May 10, one of Leo's first official duties, the pope gave early insight into the answer to the question posed by the election of a new pope: Would the Church embrace Francis' reform-minded progressivism, or usher in a more traditional approach? Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 11 May 2025 It’s mostly not used to refer to someone with heartfelt emotions but rather connotes a level of insidiousness or carelessness under the guise of progressivism. Mikelle Street, Them., 1 May 2025 The party is regrouping after 2024's election losses, with the central debate over whether Democrats should lean more or less into the progressivism that has predominated over the past few years. Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for progressivism
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liberalism
Noun
  • Yet what Grant didn’t foresee is that this kind of liberalism could form an effective resistance against Yankee imperialism.
    Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 2 July 2025
  • Conservatives, by contrast, paint liberalism as a cultural leviathan that has trampled traditional values underfoot.
    Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 2 June 2025

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“Progressivism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/progressivism. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.

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