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noun

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Noun
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
Adjective
  • Bannon has used the term globalists to refer to Silicon Valley elites, media executives, neoconservative foreign-policy hawks, proponents of lightly regulated global markets, and Jared Kushner.
    Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2026
  • While fulfilling a longtime neoconservative dream, this war is the latest assault on the constitutional order.
    The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 5 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • 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.
    semafor.com, semafor.com, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Historians have pointed to Hodge’s early support of reactionary rightists, including industrialists, landlords, and businessmen—people who were associated with Japanese rule.
    Kornel Chang September 19, Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Cornyn, still the establishment conservative, raised roughly sixty-nine million dollars; Paxton just four million.
    Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2026
  • On Wednesday, Johnson expressed confidence that Republicans will defeat the House's war powers resolution, despite some reservations expressed by a handful of conservatives.
    ABC News, ABC News, 4 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • Roll the Calls shatters the mold of stodgy CEO memoirs.
    Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Trump creates fear of a worse outcome (hostile takeover) and the other side (usually stodgy hotel managers) proposes buybacks, joint ventures, special access and the like.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Barcelona’s main threat is right-winger Lamine Yamal, who has the ability to beat two opponents single-handedly, so Jules Kounde tends to play more of a supporting role, sometimes holding his position and tucking into a back three, and pushing forward sporadically.
    Michael Cox, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2026
  • When left- and right-wingers agree that the United States is unrepresentative, that represents a mandate for disruption—from Trump in 2024 to Mamdani in 2025.
    Will Johnson, Time, 1 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • The collective dream was for a new, democratic structure that could replace Assad’s ossified legal regime.
    Anand Gopal, New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2026
  • And he's taken aim at the foreign policy apparatus, describing institutions like the NSC and State Department as having been ossified and out of touch.
    Franco Ordoñez, NPR, 26 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Still, Meek’s traditionalist impulses often ignite his best songs.
    Dean Van Nguyen, Pitchfork, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Tasked specifically with filming Jackie Kennedy, Maysles did that job and more, capturing telling moments—the future first lady nervously fidgeting with her white gloves, for example—that traditionalists felt should have remained private.
    Rosemary Counter, Vanity Fair, 25 Feb. 2026
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

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