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noun

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Noun
  • The protests highlighted, for many conservatives, the consequences of the state’s left-leaning approach to progressive criminal justice reform and immigration.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten , Peter D'Abrosca, FOXNews.com, 14 June 2025
  • The result is not so much a win for conservatives or liberals as for legal stability.
    Noah Feldman, Mercury News, 12 June 2025
Adjective
  • My intention was to suggest a consensus approach that could overcome the stodgy staff guarding the City’s credit rating to try something new.
    Roger Valdez, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
  • The Pacers took advantage of stodgy Knicks offense to get back into the game.
    Shakeia Taylor, New York Times, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • Rachmaninoff has gone from being widely viewed as a musical archconservative to a protomodernist.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Brat is an archconservative who knocked out an establishment Republican, but his district is changing.
    Dylan Scott, Vox, 11 June 2018
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
Adjective
  • That's right, a fully electric plane, carrying people, quietly and efficiently making its way through the skies above New York.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 22 June 2025
  • Now, Thomas is absolutely right in showing courage.
    CBS News, CBS News, 22 June 2025
Adjective
  • The dowdy and shy Ursula is diabetic and has lost her eyesight in one eye.
    Michelle F. Solomon, Miami Herald, 15 May 2025
  • Machi plays a dowdy tax inspector closing in on a Shakira-style Latina singer for tax fraud.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 15 May 2025
Adjective
  • Former Cincinnati Reds shortstop Zack Cozart, who has also been a staunch Trump supporter in the past, expressed a similar sentiment to Strickland in an X post on Monday.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 17 June 2025
  • Israel’s staunch ally, the U.S., stepped in to help shoot down Iranian missiles, while other global leaders have called to de-escalate tensions.
    Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 16 June 2025
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“Right-wing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/right-wing. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.

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