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Recent Examples of left-winger
The Japan left-winger was substituted in the second half of the Chelsea match.
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Andy Naylor, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
Andy Naylor, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for left-winger
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That includes Valentín, a leftist whose own dreams of revolution have been cut short by the dictatorship’s crackdowns.—
Blythe Marks,
Them.,
17 Oct. 2025
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His cultural critiques were unmistakably right-wing, but his scorn for the corporatization of universities might have come from the mouth of a disaffected leftist.—
Emma Green,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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Even John Stuart Mill, the model nineteenth-century liberal and a feminist, did not think that Indians in British India were ready for free speech.—
Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2025
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Navratilova is known as a highly outspoken liberal as a former athlete.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
18 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The right-hander out of Florida was Boston’s next player taken after Tolle and was selected ahead of fifth-round lefty Brandon Clarke, who spent time this past year in Baseball America’s Top 100, but Neely didn’t pitch at all in 2025 due to forearm tightness.—
Mac Cerullo,
Boston Herald,
23 Oct. 2025
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As a 6-foot lefty, Young has been labeled by some as the G League’s Jalen Brunson because of some similarities in their games.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
19 Oct. 2025
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“Left-winger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/left-winger. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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