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Recent Examples of accommodationist
Bob Michel, the longtime accommodationist who treated Democratic House majorities as an unalterable fact of life, faded away, and the pugilistic Newt Gingrich ascended.
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Ed Burmila, The New Republic, 15 June 2022
Many African American activists had broken with King, advocating Black Power rather than racial reconciliation, abandoning nonviolence, and denouncing King as an accommodationist.
—Drew Gilpin Faust, The Atlantic, 18 July 2019
Ava DuVernay is Hollywood’s current reigning accommodationist.
—Armond White, National Review, 10 July 2019
To Douthat Francis is an accommodationist, and decline has reached the apex of the church.
—Paul Elie, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2018
Ed Burmila, The New Republic, 15 June 2022
Many African American activists had broken with King, advocating Black Power rather than racial reconciliation, abandoning nonviolence, and denouncing King as an accommodationist.
—Drew Gilpin Faust, The Atlantic, 18 July 2019
Ava DuVernay is Hollywood’s current reigning accommodationist.
—Armond White, National Review, 10 July 2019
To Douthat Francis is an accommodationist, and decline has reached the apex of the church.
—Paul Elie, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for accommodationist
Noun
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The New York progressive has embraced the Democratic socialist label, despite pushback from within her own party.—
Kate Plummer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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That’s because Pelosi already has a challenger — the ultra-wealthy progressive Saikat Chakrabarti, a startup millionaire who served as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign manager during her first upset win for Congress in 2018.—
Anita Chabria,
Mercury News,
22 Oct. 2025
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The tender track finds Nelson working alongside his longtime collaborator and producer Buddy Cannon on a track penned by Country Music Hall of Fame Bill Anderson with Bobby Tomberlin and Marv Green.—
Daniel Kreps,
Rolling Stone,
25 Oct. 2025
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Bentley, who directed from a script he co-wrote with his longtime collaborator Greg Kwedar, paints a portrait of grief and transformation with meditative precision and visual poetry.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
24 Oct. 2025
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One analyst who praised the plan was accused of being a race traitor, and other critics have voiced fears that China will be overrun by outsiders.—
Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
17 Oct. 2025
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The high-concept social experiment show, in which a group of strangers work together to uncover the traitors, sorry, werewolves, amongst them, was a breakout hit on Canal+ in France and has already been adapted for ARD’s online service in Germany.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Oct. 2025
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Book everything early Eclipses have been known to create sellouts and shortages.—
Maya Silver,
Outside,
21 Oct. 2025
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And a sellout crowd in Fort Fun seeing Timmy Chang’s Rainbow Warriors up close only made the contrasts sharper — like the edge of a cavalry saber.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
19 Oct. 2025
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But the president's new FTC chair, Andrew Ferguson, is an outspoken Big Tech critic on X and is signaling the panel won't be stacked with pro-industry quislings.—
Marc Caputo,
Axios,
10 Feb. 2025
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Erdogan, meanwhile, lambasted Kilicdaroglu as a quisling who is in cahoots with the West and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, a Kurdish separatist group that both Ankara and Washington consider a terrorist entity.—
Nabih Bulos,
Los Angeles Times,
28 May 2023
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President Abraham Lincoln called on state militias at the outset of the Civil War to help in fighting Confederate turncoats to the South.—
Alana Wise,
NPR,
21 Aug. 2025
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The turncoats are John Hannah, Biggie Munn, Bo Schembechler and Burt Smith.—
Joe Rexrode,
New York Times,
9 July 2025
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“Accommodationist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/accommodationist. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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