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Adjective
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One expendable named Mickey (Robert Pattinson) is part of a mission to colonize a distant planet, under the authority of a sleazily predatory and demagogic politician, Kenneth Marshall (Mark Ruffalo).—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
11 Mar. 2025 -
With a clear-eyed but not demagogic tone, stressing competition but not necessarily confrontation, and linking competition with China directly to the interests of Americans, Trump could rally the American public, civil society, academia, and the corporate sector behind the administration’s efforts.—
Rush Doshi,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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Some worried that freeing all of them, including criminals convicted of violence or seditious conspiracy, would backfire.—
Eric Cortellessa,
Time,
25 Apr. 2025
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Three other fellow Proud Boys found guilty of seditious conspiracy were sentenced shortly before Tarrio to prison terms of 15 to 18 years.—
Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
18 Apr. 2025
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“Rabble-rousing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rabble-rousing. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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