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Recent Examples of right-wing
Steve Madeley,
New York Times,
2 Sep. 2025
The editorial takes pains to quote the school board, the board president and the Illinois Policy Institute, a right-wing and anti-labor organization, without any quotes from the association or its president.
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Chicago Tribune,
1 Sep. 2025
Macri's circle continues pushing for an open break with Milei to lead right-wing opposition.
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Agustino Fontevecchia,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
The changes occurred after the struggling restaurant chain faced days of intense backlash, primarily from right-wing influencers, over its new logo.
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Jade Walker,
CNN Money,
29 Aug. 2025
Antoni is the chief economist at the right-wing Heritage Foundation think tank, a contributor to the right-wing policy blueprint Project 2025 and a critic of the agency.
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Calmatters,
Oc Register,
29 Aug. 2025
YouTube inked a deal to launch Herring Networks’ right-wing One America News (OAN) on YouTube TV in the fourth quarter of 2025.
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Todd Spangler,
Variety,
27 Aug. 2025
Farage, a British right-wing populist, has been critical of the Online Safety Act, saying in July the act was already altering consumers’ feeds.
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Filip Timotija,
The Hill,
27 Aug. 2025
Fuentes is among the most popular streamers on Rumble, a right-wing platform similar to YouTube; his videos regularly rack up hundreds of thousands of views.
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Ali Breland,
The Atlantic,
26 Aug. 2025
Noun
Several targets, especially for the right-wing-back role, turned them down.
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Steve Madeley,
New York Times,
2 Sep. 2025
The editorial takes pains to quote the school board, the board president and the Illinois Policy Institute, a right-wing and anti-labor organization, without any quotes from the association or its president.
—
Chicago Tribune,
1 Sep. 2025
Macri's circle continues pushing for an open break with Milei to lead right-wing opposition.
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Agustino Fontevecchia,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
The changes occurred after the struggling restaurant chain faced days of intense backlash, primarily from right-wing influencers, over its new logo.
—
Jade Walker,
CNN Money,
29 Aug. 2025
Antoni is the chief economist at the right-wing Heritage Foundation think tank, a contributor to the right-wing policy blueprint Project 2025 and a critic of the agency.
—
Calmatters,
Oc Register,
29 Aug. 2025
YouTube inked a deal to launch Herring Networks’ right-wing One America News (OAN) on YouTube TV in the fourth quarter of 2025.
—
Todd Spangler,
Variety,
27 Aug. 2025
Farage, a British right-wing populist, has been critical of the Online Safety Act, saying in July the act was already altering consumers’ feeds.
—
Filip Timotija,
The Hill,
27 Aug. 2025
Fuentes is among the most popular streamers on Rumble, a right-wing platform similar to YouTube; his videos regularly rack up hundreds of thousands of views.
—
Ali Breland,
The Atlantic,
26 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for right-wing
Adjective
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The President, this faction argued, was too cowed by hawkish interventionists like Mark Levin, a neoconservative commentator.
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Those twenty-five years or so were the apex of Washington Consensus conservatism, of neoconservative interventions abroad and neoliberal economic policy at home.
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That is, rightists who oppose aid to Ukraine tend to be skeptical of Israel and at least open to having anti-Semites in the Republican coalition.
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Earlier this month, Brazil’s Supreme Court sentenced the rightist Bolsonaro to 27 years in prison for plotting a coup following his 2023 election loss.
Adjective
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That sort of living-document approach helps keep The Invite from coming off as overly stagy or stodgy.
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Think of it as pasta salad that’s more crunchy greens than stodgy pasta, or a green salad with the extra support and satiety of protein and carbs.
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Vermeule—a former clerk for Scalia—proposes that conservatives should read the Constitution’s ambiguous phrases and general structure in an openly moral way, drawing on principles grounded in the nature and purposes of government.
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In her final opinion as a Supreme Court justice in 2005, Sandra Day O’Connor – a judicial conservative – reflected on the importance of church-state separation to guarantee full religious freedom.
Adjective
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These had a head dominated by large eyes and a partially ossified jaw—but again, no external gills.
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But rather than simply repeat the even-then ossified list of events leading to the invention of photography and the medium’s later innovations, the book uses a series of stories, reminiscences, and tall tales to describe how photography transformed everyday (and not so everyday) experience.
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Cleaning up the courts So the next justice will likely be a right-winger, too.
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Bass’ absence from the city soon caught the eye of right-wingers, with Spencer Pratt, who ran against her in the nonpartisan primary election, and Steve Hilton, who is running for governor, among those critiquing her.
Adjective
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Since then, McCarthy has had to tread somewhat lightly between the ultraright caucus and the rest of his party.
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Because Jesuits often sided with El Salvador’s poor and some kept records of human rights violations, they were hated by the country’s ultraright.
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Still, many traditionalists don’t believe robotic elephants belong in temples.
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But Francis also announced restrictions on the Latin Mass in 2021, angering many traditionalists.
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“Right-wing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/right-wing. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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