progressivism

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Recent Examples of progressivism Two thirds of the cardinal electors were chosen by Francis in the last decade, with many of an age and sensibility that reflected his own relative progressivism. Paolo Armelli, Vogue, 21 Apr. 2025 The uneasy balance of intentions — re-create famous moments of yesteryear, wedge in vague flavors of resonance — reflects the default tone of corporate progressivism that corporations and progressives both seem tired of now. Darren Franich, Vulture, 26 Mar. 2025 Trump won in 2024 partly because Biden whisperers convinced him that voters craved high-octane progressivism, from trillion-dollar spending tranches to innumerable pronouns. George Will, Twin Cities, 20 Mar. 2025 While not as successful as Obama, much of Bernie Sanders’s 2016 anti-Hillary campaign was animated by her husband’s transgressions against progressivism, which Trump went on to exploit in the general election in an early assault on the Obama coalition. W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 14 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for progressivism
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liberalism
Noun
  • He’s routinely refocused Labour away from metropolitan lifestyle liberalism, to bread-and-butter issues of government delivering good service.
    The Editors, National Review, 17 May 2025
  • For the Trump administration, Harvard presents the first major hurdle in its attempt to force change at universities that Republicans say have become hotbeds of liberalism and antisemitism.
    Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 24 Apr. 2025

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“Progressivism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/progressivism. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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