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For all his progressivism, Mamdani is a relentlessly boosterish NYC insider with a uniform — black suit, white shirt — familiar to New York’s financiers.
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Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 4 Nov. 2025
But there’s nothing magic, of course, about freshness or progressivism.
—Bill McKibben, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2025
Reform—Within Reason Malthus aimed to puncture Godwin’s grandiloquent progressivism.
—Roy Scranton, JSTOR Daily, 18 Sep. 2025
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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Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 4 Nov. 2025
But there’s nothing magic, of course, about freshness or progressivism.
—Bill McKibben, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2025
Reform—Within Reason Malthus aimed to puncture Godwin’s grandiloquent progressivism.
—Roy Scranton, JSTOR Daily, 18 Sep. 2025
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for progressivism
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Unlike Chakrabarti, Wiener has also been a part of San Francisco’s insular community for decades, and has his own base of support — though he is considered a moderate to Chakrabarti’s progressiveness.—
Anita Chabria,
Mercury News,
22 Oct. 2025
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Its reputation is one of progressiveness and social awareness.—
Christian Orozco,
NBC news,
12 Sep. 2025
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Reminiscent of the violence against labor unions, liberalism, and Black soldiers that followed World War I, Robinson testified against Robeson in a climate that was now being called the second Red Scare.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Jan. 2026
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By contrast, the liberalism of the American order pressured powerful countries to cede sovereignty and independence to smaller ones in their orbits.—
Robert Kagan,
The Atlantic,
18 Jan. 2026
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“Progressivism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/progressivism. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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