accommodationist

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Recent Examples of accommodationist Bob Michel, the longtime accommodationist who treated Democratic House majorities as an unalterable fact of life, faded away, and the pugilistic Newt Gingrich ascended. Ed Burmila, The New Republic, 15 June 2022 Many African American activists had broken with King, advocating Black Power rather than racial reconciliation, abandoning nonviolence, and denouncing King as an accommodationist. Drew Gilpin Faust, The Atlantic, 18 July 2019 Ava DuVernay is Hollywood’s current reigning accommodationist. Armond White, National Review, 10 July 2019 To Douthat Francis is an accommodationist, and decline has reached the apex of the church. Paul Elie, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for accommodationist
Noun
  • On the left, contemporary progressives have denounced the original progressive for his horrific opinions of black Americans.
    Christian Schneider, National Review, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Nor will American progressives have an intellectual base from which to confront the huge challenges now facing the world, challenges that can be addressed only through cooperation among powerful states.
    Anatol Lieven, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • During Saturday’s concert, Young also reunited with longtime collaborator Stephen Stills.
    Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Waters’ career in cinema was largely made with the support of this community, with one of his frequent collaborators being the famous drag queen Divine.
    Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 27 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The American president is a traitor to the democratic world.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2025
  • If that isn’t pressure enough, the women are faced with a mysterious traitor who emerges, years later, as the three friends are torn apart.
    Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 25 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Along the way, Rhodes was the driving force behind WWE’s sellout streak, its booming merchandise sales and its general uptick in quality.
    Blake Oestriecher, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Over two days last week, the sellout eliminated more than $6 trillion in market value in the U.S. alone.
    Mike Lillis, The Hill, 7 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • But the president's new FTC chair, Andrew Ferguson, is an outspoken Big Tech critic on X and is signaling the panel won't be stacked with pro-industry quislings.
    Marc Caputo, Axios, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Erdogan, meanwhile, lambasted Kilicdaroglu as a quisling who is in cahoots with the West and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, a Kurdish separatist group that both Ankara and Washington consider a terrorist entity.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2023
Noun
  • Its players are turncoats whose legacies are forever stained.
    Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 6 Apr. 2025
  • Many countries have a great turncoat in their history.
    Matthew J. Friedman, CNN Money, 1 Apr. 2025

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“Accommodationist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/accommodationist. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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