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Recent Examples of right-wing
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.
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Chicago Tribune,
1 Sep. 2025
Macri's circle continues pushing for an open break with Milei to lead right-wing opposition.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Ali Breland,
The Atlantic,
26 Aug. 2025
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Several targets, especially for the right-wing-back role, turned them down.
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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
Adjective
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The President, this faction argued, was too cowed by hawkish interventionists like Mark Levin, a neoconservative commentator.
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Those twenty-five years or so were the apex of Washington Consensus conservatism, of neoconservative interventions abroad and neoliberal economic policy at home.
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That is, rightists who oppose aid to Ukraine tend to be skeptical of Israel and at least open to having anti-Semites in the Republican coalition.
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Earlier this month, Brazil’s Supreme Court sentenced the rightist Bolsonaro to 27 years in prison for plotting a coup following his 2023 election loss.
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There’s also the idea that Hollywood finally, after being very stodgy, began to change its marketing and advertising policies.
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If the dip still feels a bit stodgy, try adding a little more tahini or olive oil to smooth it out.
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The Riverside County sheriff drew flak for conservatives like Laura Loomer for kneeling alongside activists in the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests and, when pressed by a CNN reporter, for signaling openness to a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
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The deal, of which Vance is increasingly the public face, is encountering a wall of opposition from skeptical conservatives who have blasted it as a loss for the United States — and a potential handicap for Vance’s political future.
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But rather than simply repeat the even-then ossified list of events leading to the invention of photography and the medium’s later innovations, the book uses a series of stories, reminiscences, and tall tales to describe how photography transformed everyday (and not so everyday) experience.
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Lockhart, a mathematician who taught first at Brown University and UC Santa Cruz and then for many years at Saint Ann’s, a progressive private school in Brooklyn, argues that the injury is due to our ossified K–12 mathematics curriculum.
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Bass’ absence from the city soon caught the eye of right-wingers, with Spencer Pratt, who ran against her in the nonpartisan primary election, and Steve Hilton, who is running for governor, among those critiquing her.
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Salah was a revelation playing behind Omar Marmoush as a No 10, a departure from his seemingly undisputable spot as a right-winger, creating three chances for his team-mates, the joint-most of any player in the game.
Adjective
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Since then, McCarthy has had to tread somewhat lightly between the ultraright caucus and the rest of his party.
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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.
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While most of the familiar multi-variety white cuvées are traditional blend styles from regions like Rhône Valley, Rioja, Tuscany, or Bordeaux, a handful around the globe—and especially from the New World—combine varieties that would infuriate traditionalists.
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Truck traditionalists, however, will not settle for less than eight cylinders under the hood, Kuniskis said, and customers often tell him that a compact truck can't get them to their work site or reliably tow their boats or trailers.
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“Right-wing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/right-wing. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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