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Adjective
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Leading the charge for the religious parents was lawyer Eric Baxter, who got a grilling from the court's three liberal justices.—
Nina Totenberg,
NPR,
22 Apr. 2025 -
The court’s three liberal justices all vigorously challenged the parents’ request in the case, seeing opt-out rights as a slippery slope.—
Devin Dwyer,
ABC News,
22 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Castellanos took consecutive changeups from Marlins lefty Anthony Veneziano for balls.—
Matt Gelb,
New York Times,
19 Apr. 2025
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The lefty slugger struggled in his first trip to the Majors last spring, getting sent down to the minors for more seasoning.—
Michael Lycklama,
Idaho Statesman,
16 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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This reactionary strategy keeps companies mired in the past, unable to leverage real-time analytics, artificial intelligence and automation.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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Teams take pride in removing emotion from decisions and loathe making moves that can be interpreted as reactionary.—
Ken Rosenthal,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Into the mural, Rivera, a communist, painted a portrait Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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Trepper, a Polish-Jewish communist, ran a network of Soviet spies across Western Europe, named by the Germans as the Red Orchestra, from the mid-1930s until 1942, when he was captured by the Gestapo and then escaped.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
11 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Francis, who was a progressive leader of the church, had appointed roughly 80% of the cardinals who are eligible to vote for the new pope, according to Miles Pattenden, historian of the Catholic Church at Oxford University.—
Megan Forrester,
ABC News,
21 Apr. 2025
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Joseph Tobin Joseph Tobin, 72, is a highly progressive candidate for the Church and has amassed substantial influence in the U.S.—
Solcyré Burga,
Time,
21 Apr. 2025
Noun
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That was demonstrated on the night before Newsom’s announcement when Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — two East Coast democratic socialists — attracted nearly 30,000 people at an anti-Trump rally in a Republican congressional district near Sacramento.—
George Skelton,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Apr. 2025
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But America’s regulated economy and social safety net didn’t just materialize after an invasion of socialists from Mars.—
Mark Green,
New York Daily News,
20 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The former president returned to his private home on Friday from the official residence, with crowds of conservative supporters turning out to greet his motorcade.—
Joyce Lee,
USA Today,
14 Apr. 2025
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His goal was to gain ground for conservative principles every day, with persuasion as his primary weapon, not shouting and histrionics.—
Doug Ducey,
National Review,
14 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The white facade of St. Peter’s glowed pink as the sun rose Saturday and hordes of mourners rushed into the square.—
Nicole Winfield and Colleen Barry,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Apr. 2025
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Photo : Getty Images Malaki Starks: Customized Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Another draft pick, another endorsement of pink.—
Justin Fenner,
Robb Report,
25 Apr. 2025
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“Leftist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leftist. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
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