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noun

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Noun
  • By 2010, however, this relationship had inverted, with conservatives expressing the lowest levels of trust in science.
    Matt Motta, Scientific American, 10 July 2025
  • Nevada’s Experience: While the idea has support from both liberals and conservatives, the biggest existing attempt to do so, in Nevada, has so far created little affordable housing.
    Abe Streep, ProPublica, 8 July 2025
Adjective
  • But that doesn’t mean their lineup is stodgy or boring.
    Lauren Wingenroth, SELF, 25 Apr. 2025
  • The event also served as the debut for HPE’s new brand mark, refreshing a stodgy and text-heavy logo by incorporating a variation on Hewlett Packard’s iconic green badge that is meant to appear open to the future.
    Will Townsend, Forbes.com, 30 June 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
  • On May 23, in a game against the Baltimore Orioles at Fenway Park the 31-year-old two-time All-Star suffered a strained right quadriceps muscle, and has been on the injured list ever since.
    Jon Vankin, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 July 2025
  • Karlovy Vary played a key role in the new film, right?
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 1 July 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
  • Their starting pitching has remained staunch, and closer Carlos Estévez through Thursday was tied for the MLB lead in saves with 22.
    Vahe Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 27 June 2025
  • Still, even some staunch supporters of Netanyahu and Trump seemed a bit unnerved.
    Natalie Melzer, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2025
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“Right-wing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/right-wing. Accessed 17 Jul. 2025.

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