as in moderate
a person who holds moderate views
since the party's middle-of-the-roaders often lack verve, the activists inevitably nominate some extremist who can't win in the general election
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Limited polling shows two at the top -- former Biden administration cybersecurity expert Cait Conley and Rockland County Legislator Beth Davidson -- running as pragmatic moderates.—
Tony Aiello,
CBS News,
9 June 2026 -
But in every era of conflict, some well-meaning moderates have enabled bad-faith censors by conflating confrontational speech with the violence that sometimes answers it.—
Rob Wolfe,
The Atlantic,
5 June 2026
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In the end, voters selected Bass, a Democratic centrist, and democratic socialist City Councilmember Nithya Raman, who ran to Bass’ left, to face off in the runoff.—
National Correspondent,
Los Angeles Times,
11 June 2026
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But that doesn’t sit well with centrists, who continue to see China as an existential rival.—
Missy Ryan,
The Atlantic,
10 June 2026
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