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noun

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Adjective
  • The model for these ecosystems comes from Colorado, where in the mid 2000s a liberal donor collective is credited with helping Democrats take and keep control of the statehouse.
    Kayla Dwyer, IndyStar, 14 July 2025
  • With the three liberal justices in dissent, the court on Monday paused an order from U.S. District Judge Myong Joun in Boston, who issued a preliminary injunction reversing the layoffs and calling into question the broader plan.
    Mark Sherman, Chicago Tribune, 14 July 2025
Noun
  • Kwan's trade value is high, and the Reds may be unwilling to part with much of their farm system to acquire the lefty.
    Hunter Mulholland, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 July 2025
  • Crow-Armstrong went deep again in the seventh off lefty reliever Anthony Misiewicz to put the Cubs up 7-1.
    Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2025
Adjective
  • What choice would a young reactionary iconoclast have but to veer right?
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2025
  • New law makes expelling kids easier Soon after the board cast its vote in February, the teen's lawyer said the board was being reactionary and that his client had been rehabilitated.
    Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • Two Prosecutors, his adaptation of Georgy Demidov’s eponymous novel, is set in the Soviet Union in 1937 during Stalin’s Great Purge and tells the story of a young local prosecutor and dedicated communist who starts to question his undying faith in the regime.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 9 July 2025
  • Inspired by the Popular Front in the Spanish Civil War, Jessica became a communist and, later, a journalist.
    Judy Berman, Time, 27 June 2025
Adjective
  • Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier took a more progressive approach to Native issues.
    Debra Utacia Krol, AZCentral.com, 13 July 2025
  • Last season, 33 per cent of his total carries in the Premier League were progressive, defined as carries greater than five metres and move the ball at least five metres towards the opposition goal — only Jeremy Doku (38 per cent) had a higher share among players who played at least 900 minutes.
    David Ornstein, New York Times, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • And, sure, the message of affordability does resonate, but Democrats have worked for years, since the 2020 campaign, to not be associated as socialists, to not be associated to some of these positions that Mamdani has talked about, like defunding ICE, defunding the police.
    ABC News, ABC News, 29 June 2025
  • Socialism has failed everywhere it’s been tried, but that didn’t stop Democratic primary voters in New York from picking a socialist as the party’s candidate for mayor.
    Nicole Russell, USA Today, 27 June 2025
Adjective
  • In addition, the independence of private universities and their tax status that encourages donations supports conservative and sectarian schools: Boston College, Notre Dame, Brigham Young, Liberty University, among many others.
    Peter Balakian July 9, Literary Hub, 9 July 2025
  • But even after the court's conservative majority limited the use of far-reaching injunctions that block enforcement of a policy across the country, the justices may continue to face a steady drumbeat of emergency appeals seeking their intervention.
    Melissa Quinn July 9, CBS News, 9 July 2025
Noun
  • This is a full-sensory experience with everything from the whir of roller skates on a retro rink to enough pink to make a flamingo blush.
    Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
  • Two neon pinks out of five. Money Inc. vs. The Natural Disasters Man, some powerful mullets at work in this one.
    Rory Appleton, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
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“Leftist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leftist. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.

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