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Recent Examples of demagogic
These were the kind of comments that Republicans of the past might have seen at Democratic conventions and viewed as demagogic.
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Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 18 July 2024
First off, reading out demagogic business bashing scripts is not Biden’s nature.
—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, TIME, 26 June 2024
This time, an incumbent president had narrowly defeated a demagogic challenger, who was refusing to concede.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 26 Jan. 2024
Within a year, Fulbright had helped persuade 66 other senators to join him in censuring McCarthy and ending his demagogic run.
—Charles King, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2021
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Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 18 July 2024
First off, reading out demagogic business bashing scripts is not Biden’s nature.
—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, TIME, 26 June 2024
This time, an incumbent president had narrowly defeated a demagogic challenger, who was refusing to concede.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 26 Jan. 2024
Within a year, Fulbright had helped persuade 66 other senators to join him in censuring McCarthy and ending his demagogic run.
—Charles King, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for demagogic
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The federal judge who presided over the seditious conspiracy trial of far-right Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes rescinded an order that barred Rhodes and his co-defendants from traveling to Washington, D.C.—
Robert Legare,
CBS News,
27 Jan. 2025
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Rhodes and five others were convicted of a rare seditious conspiracy charge for their outsize roles in organizing the riot as an answer to Trump’s 2020 election loss.—
Ashley Oliver,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
24 Jan. 2025
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Those steep canyons were too treacherous to hike into—a broken ankle would require an air evacuation—so the crew’s assignment was to create a mile-long containment line in the peaks west of Mount Wilson Observatory.—
M. R. O’Connor,
The New Yorker,
27 Jan. 2025
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With snow accumulations up to 10 inches and widespread gusty winds, travel in these regions will remain treacherous through 4 p.m. Monday.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
26 Jan. 2025
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Guinevere, usually relegated to the thankless role of traitorous wife, acts here as Arthur’s beloved confidante.—
Elizabeth Hand,
Washington Post,
16 July 2024
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And somewhere between them on the war/peace continuum sit the men on Rhaenyra’s borderline traitorous council.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
30 June 2024
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In Aida’s final scene, the treasonous general Radamés, who has been interred as punishment, finds his slave princess waiting for him in the shadows.—
Justin Davidson,
Vulture,
8 Jan. 2025
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The Safeguarding National Security Bill, passed in March, offers punishments for treason and insurrection with life imprisonment and allows for punishment for possession of treasonous publications with time in prison.—
Timothy H.J. Nerozzi Fox News,
Fox News,
26 Sep. 2024
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“Demagogic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/demagogic. Accessed 10 Feb. 2025.
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