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Recent Examples of pinko
My general experience with campaigns is that winning candidates are almost always those who attack their opponents remorselessly and relentlessly — those who convince the voters that the other guy is a racist, a pinko, a warmonger, a coward, a crook, a greedy capitalist, whatever.
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Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 18 Jan. 2024
Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 18 Jan. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pinko
Noun
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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
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The lefty has surrendered one run or fewer in 12 of his 16 starts this season.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
10 July 2025
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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
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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
Noun
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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
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Inspired by the Popular Front in the Spanish Civil War, Jessica became a communist and, later, a journalist.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
27 June 2025
Noun
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That film also saw the president's plane hijacked by dirty rotten commies (Gary Oldman this time instead of Nancy Stephens) and, just like with Pleasence, the President of the United States is ushered into an escape pod.—
Jordan Hoffman,
EW.com,
10 July 2025
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At other times, he’s called to action as a respected adventurer to investigate missing persons and MacGuffins, which generally leads to a series of globe-spanning scraps with members Axis Powers (sometimes cultists and commies too).—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
10 Dec. 2024
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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
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Ogles railed against the democratic socialist's win in social media posts.—
Joyce Orlando,
Nashville Tennessean,
27 June 2025
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“Pinko.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pinko. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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