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Adjective
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Now it would be seen as very chauvinist of us.—
Lizz Schumer,
PEOPLE,
7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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In the satirical comedy, Sacha Baron Cohen plays a successful and chauvinistic advertising CEO who lives for power and casual flings.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
12 May 2026
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Much of that is thanks to casting, which made an effort to diversify contestants and avoided overindexing on the chauvinistic archetypes of old.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
1 Apr. 2026
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And the industry had already begun to shift away from the wave of big-budget historical dramas and jingoistic biopics that marked the Orbán years.—
Christopher Vourlias,
Variety,
15 May 2026
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While jingoistic support for the military was Anutin’s secret weapon, the progressive’s antagonist view of green uniforms turned out to be its kryptonite.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
9 Feb. 2026
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The day after this photo was taken, a Hindu-nationalist mob destroyed the Babri Masjid, a 16th-century mosque, leading to a nationwide wave of riots that resulted in the murder of thousands of Indians, Muslim and Hindu.—
Taran Dugal,
New Yorker,
23 May 2026
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Many American Jews now experience anti-Semitism not only from the nationalist right but from growing segments of the left as well.—
Michael W. Sonnenfeldt,
The Atlantic,
20 May 2026
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“Spread-eagle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spread-eagle. Accessed 28 May. 2026.
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