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a person who supports racial segregation
segregationists versus integrationists a segregationist politician/state/attitude/view
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Recent Examples of segregationist
Decades after its segregationist regime fell, South Africa remains a profoundly unequal society.
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Michelle Gavin, Foreign Affairs, 17 Sep. 2025
But California’s century-long policy of handing land use policy off to cities and counties has allowed jobs-rich coastal areas to build gilded walls around themselves with segregationist zoning.
—Stan Oklobdzija, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025
Their activism drew hostility from segregationists, which cost them their jobs.
—Mariette Williams, AFAR Media, 9 Sep. 2025
Bacon contends that Republicans shouldn't support the names, which were originally proposed by segregationist Jim Crow-era Southern Democrats during World War I and World War II.
—Davis Winkie, USA Today, 19 July 2025
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Michelle Gavin, Foreign Affairs, 17 Sep. 2025
But California’s century-long policy of handing land use policy off to cities and counties has allowed jobs-rich coastal areas to build gilded walls around themselves with segregationist zoning.
—Stan Oklobdzija, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025
Their activism drew hostility from segregationists, which cost them their jobs.
—Mariette Williams, AFAR Media, 9 Sep. 2025
Bacon contends that Republicans shouldn't support the names, which were originally proposed by segregationist Jim Crow-era Southern Democrats during World War I and World War II.
—Davis Winkie, USA Today, 19 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for segregationist
Noun
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Someone who can sound tough on crime and immigration without being a malicious racist.—
Molly Ball,
Time,
29 Oct. 2025
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These are the grifting savages who’ve shown their gratitude to hard-working Americans who rescued them from their primitive native lands by robbing us blind while calling us racists and demanding even more handouts.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
24 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The Iraqi prime minister at the time, Nuri al-Maliki, was a Shiite sectarian with close ties to Iran, and many of his fellow Shia thought he could be relied on to listen to Iran’s wishes and find a way to avoid clashing with an Iranian proxy militia.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
2 Sep. 2025
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Both sides insist the other initiated the initial volley of gunfire that killed four agents and six sectarians.—
Joshua Alston,
Variety,
12 Apr. 2023
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“Segregationist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/segregationist. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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