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noun

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Recent Examples of right-wing
Adjective
Yet, just six years after their great electoral triumph, Ronald Reagan, a right-wing ideologue, was elected President and the Republicans captured the Senate. — David Remnick, New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2026 The most vociferous opposition has come from Avigdor Lieberman, head of the right-wing secular Yisrael Beiteinu party. — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2026 Both Milei and Peru’s President Keiko Fujimori are notable figures in Latin America’s right-wing surge. — Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2026 The daily painting effort started almost immediately after the Students’ List movement toppled former President Aleksandar Vucic ’s right-wing Serbian Progressive Party. — ABC News, 6 Nov. 2026 The Democratic party has generally taken on a more adversarial relationship with BigTech than its right-wing counterpart. — Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 6 Nov. 2026 Leo plans to meet with the right-wing presidents of Argentina and Peru. — Eben Levey, The Conversation, 6 Nov. 2026 Some right-wing commentators online claimed the issue was a sign of fraud, but both the Republican and Democrat running in the district told voters not to be deterred. — Miles Parks, NPR, 4 Nov. 2026 The legislation was introduced by a lawmaker from Brothers of Italy, the right-wing populist political party in Italy that is currently the country’s ruling party, led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. — Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 3 Nov. 2026
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Several targets, especially for the right-wing-back role, turned them down. — Steve Madeley, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2025 The editorial takes pains to quote the school board, the board president and the Illinois Policy Institute, a right-wing and anti-labor organization, without any quotes from the association or its president. — Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025 Macri's circle continues pushing for an open break with Milei to lead right-wing opposition. — Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025 The changes occurred after the struggling restaurant chain faced days of intense backlash, primarily from right-wing influencers, over its new logo. — Jade Walker, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2025 Antoni is the chief economist at the right-wing Heritage Foundation think tank, a contributor to the right-wing policy blueprint Project 2025 and a critic of the agency. — Calmatters, Oc Register, 29 Aug. 2025 YouTube inked a deal to launch Herring Networks’ right-wing One America News (OAN) on YouTube TV in the fourth quarter of 2025. — Todd Spangler, Variety, 27 Aug. 2025 Farage, a British right-wing populist, has been critical of the Online Safety Act, saying in July the act was already altering consumers’ feeds. — Filip Timotija, The Hill, 27 Aug. 2025 Fuentes is among the most popular streamers on Rumble, a right-wing platform similar to YouTube; his videos regularly rack up hundreds of thousands of views. — Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for right-wing
  1. neoconservative
  2. rightist
  3. stodgy
  4. conservative
  5. ossified
  6. right-winger
  7. ultraright
  8. traditionalist
Adjective
  • The President, this faction argued, was too cowed by hawkish interventionists like Mark Levin, a neoconservative commentator.
    — Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Those twenty-five years or so were the apex of Washington Consensus conservatism, of neoconservative interventions abroad and neoliberal economic policy at home.
    — Suzanne Schneider, The New York Review of Books, 25 Mar. 2026
Definition of neoconservative
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  • Incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva had avoided debating challenger Flávio Bolsonaro — the son of a former president jailed for staging a coup — but the rightist’s first-round victory put the president on the back foot.
    — semafor.com, semafor.com, 19 Oct. 2026
  • In fact, he’s decided to go all the way from an angry leftist to a very angry rightist.
    — NBC news, NBC news, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of rightist
Adjective
  • While most dramas this long in the tooth trend toward decline, the series’ many innovations, in a frequently stodgy genre, continue to pay off.
    — Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2026
  • There's Seta, where chef Antonio Guida peps up sometimes stodgy northern Italian cuisine with scents of the south, but the beating heart is the Mandarin Bar & Bistrot.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of stodgy
Noun
  • Hawley and a small group of conservatives spent hours huddled with Republicans in the Old Senate Chamber arguing for a delay in leadership elections to allow the party to consider alternative candidates.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 13 Nov. 2026
  • White conservatives have dominated Mississippi’s Statehouse and congressional delegation ever since.
    — Corey Williams, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2026
Definition of conservative
Adjective
  • The story is organized by the seasons, and the director uses changes in the weather and the light to build the picture’s gathering mood of ossified brutality.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Yet in China, state influence over resource allocation has ossified markets, especially by reducing bankruptcies, in ways that limit the fruits of innovation and efficiency gains in the broader economy.
    — Oliver Melton, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of ossified
Noun
  • Lula is 80-year-old leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who is running for a fourth term against 45-year-old right-winger Flavio Bolsonaro, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro.
    — Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Hegseth also announced that billionaire right-wingers Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey are going to help guide the future of the military, which doesn’t sound terrifying at all.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of right-winger
Adjective
  • Since then, McCarthy has had to tread somewhat lightly between the ultraright caucus and the rest of his party.
    — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Because Jesuits often sided with El Salvador’s poor and some kept records of human rights violations, they were hated by the country’s ultraright.
    — New York Times, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2021
Definition of ultraright
Noun
  • At the time, tastemakers were shedding the darker, heavier, traditionalist aesthetics of the Victorian era.
    — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Refreshingly novel in the 1970s, the curatorial approach frequently earned him pushback from traditionalists.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of traditionalist

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