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noun

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Noun
  • These Are the Dark-Horse Contenders The church is recent years has been sharply divided between conservatives and progressives.
    Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 2025
  • That’s what both Blume’s novel and Akil’s adaptation offer audiences: A safe space to have those conversations, the very ones that conservatives want so desperately to muzzle right now.
    Candice Frederick, Refinery29, 8 May 2025
Adjective
  • This week’s decision behind closed doors by the PLO’s aging leadership is likely to reinforce its image as stodgy and remote.
    Wafaa Shurafa, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Distribution with Regal is indicative of Leitner-Waldman’s theory that wine drinkers are eschewing the more stodgy and outdated way that they were presented wines—the white tablecloth fine dining experience—and instead seeking to sip on wine during more active occasions.
    John Kell, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 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
  • Trump could be the right leader to forge compromise.
    J. Tedford Tyler, Time, 17 May 2025
  • His backtracking was not handled with utmost finesse, but this was the right outcome.
    Steve Bousquet, Sun Sentinel, 17 May 2025
Adjective
  • These designs deliver on arch support without feeling dowdy.
    Malia Griggs, Glamour, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Meanwhile, the cutout neckline and darted bodice prevent it from being dowdy.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Greene, a staunch Trump ally, won her election in November in the critical swing state that the president also won.
    Anna Commander, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 May 2025
  • Johnson’s selection came over the fierce opposition of some of the school’s staunchest supporters, who celebrate FAMU’s legacy of Black excellence, social mobility and cultural pride.
    Kate Payne, Sun Sentinel, 16 May 2025
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“Right-wing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/right-wing. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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