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Adjective
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Targeting this sliver of the market as the primary villain of the affordability crisis is a fundamental, demagogic misdiagnosis.—
Steve Forbes,
Forbes.com,
17 Mar. 2026 -
Some earlier leaders of the religious right were also cruel and demagogic.—
Hillary Rodham Clinton,
The Atlantic,
29 Jan. 2026
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Lai, an outspoken critic of China’s ruling Communist Party who founded the now-defunct newspaper Apple Daily, was convicted in December of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces and conspiring with others to publish seditious articles.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
21 Apr. 2026
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On Tuesday, the Justice Department went a step further and asked a federal appeals court to throw out the seditious conspiracy convictions of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders who were sentenced to prison terms for leading members of the far-right extremist groups in the attack.—
Andrew J. Campa,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Apr. 2026
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“Rabble-rousing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rabble-rousing. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.
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