as in progressiveness
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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?
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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
Roosevelt’s progressivism would expand the footprint of our federal government into land conservation for national parks, trust-busting, workers’ rights and food safety.
—Dennis M. Powell, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2025
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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
Roosevelt’s progressivism would expand the footprint of our federal government into land conservation for national parks, trust-busting, workers’ rights and food safety.
—Dennis M. Powell, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for progressivism
liberalism
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After World War II, the United States promised to reestablish the global order on the foundations of liberalism.—
Erik Baker,
Harpers Magazine,
18 June 2025
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Trump and conservatives, overall, are obsessed with tarring California — to them, the apotheosis of liberalism — as a violent, lawless, anti-American hellscape.—
Max Taves,
Mercury News,
11 June 2025
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“Progressivism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/progressivism. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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