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Recent Examples of left-winger
The writing has been on the wall for a Panarin deal, with the Rangers struggling at 22-28-6 this season and the veteran left-winger having just one year left on his contract.
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Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 4 Feb. 2026
Instead, Howe went for raw pace, fielding Gordon as a false nine, with Barnes as a roaming left-winger who regularly cut inside, and Anthony Elanga down the right.
—James Pearce, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2026
Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 4 Feb. 2026
Instead, Howe went for raw pace, fielding Gordon as a false nine, with Barnes as a roaming left-winger who regularly cut inside, and Anthony Elanga down the right.
—James Pearce, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for left-winger
Noun
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However, the National Republican Senatorial Committee has already blasted Peltola as a radical leftist in a new 45-second ad.—
Molly Parks,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Jan. 2026
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Rodríguez is a hard-line leftist with deeply anti-American views learned from her father, a Marxist guerrilla commander who died at the hands of Venezuelan security forces.—
Dexter Filkins,
New Yorker,
12 Jan. 2026
Noun
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This year, the party has another chance to try something other than nominating a conventional liberal who loses and then gets to run an NGO.—
Jonathan Chait,
The Atlantic,
5 Feb. 2026
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Though Reiner, a lifelong liberal, disagreed with Kirk's conservative beliefs, the filmmaker's remarks about the incident emphasized the importance of nonviolence.—
Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
16 Dec. 2025
Noun
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The lefty spent the last two seasons pitching in Japan.—
LaMond Pope,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Feb. 2026
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Lest he be dismissed as a flighty lefty, Danbank revealed some details about his family’s political history.—
Steve Buckley,
New York Times,
8 Feb. 2026
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“Left-winger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/left-winger. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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