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Recent Examples of Synonyms for right-wing
Noun
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By 2010, however, this relationship had inverted, with conservatives expressing the lowest levels of trust in science.—
Matt Motta,
Scientific American,
10 July 2025 -
Nevada’s Experience: While the idea has support from both liberals and conservatives, the biggest existing attempt to do so, in Nevada, has so far created little affordable housing.—
Abe Streep,
ProPublica,
8 July 2025
Adjective
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But that doesn’t mean their lineup is stodgy or boring.—
Lauren Wingenroth,
SELF,
25 Apr. 2025
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The event also served as the debut for HPE’s new brand mark, refreshing a stodgy and text-heavy logo by incorporating a variation on Hewlett Packard’s iconic green badge that is meant to appear open to the future.—
Will Townsend,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
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Rachmaninoff has gone from being widely viewed as a musical archconservative to a protomodernist.—
Mark Swed,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Apr. 2023
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Brat is an archconservative who knocked out an establishment Republican, but his district is changing.—
Dylan Scott,
Vox,
11 June 2018
Adjective
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Since then, McCarthy has had to tread somewhat lightly between the ultraright caucus and the rest of his party.—
Prem Thakker,
The New Republic,
10 Mar. 2023
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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.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2021
Adjective
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The point is to prove that the physicists were right: time is elastic.—
Guy Trebay,
Travel + Leisure,
15 July 2025
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The dedicated green spaces are equipped with a drip irrigation system, and the Grand River is quite literally right in your backyard.—
Tori Latham,
Robb Report,
15 July 2025
Adjective
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The dowdy and shy Ursula is diabetic and has lost her eyesight in one eye.—
Michelle F. Solomon,
Miami Herald,
15 May 2025
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Machi plays a dowdy tax inspector closing in on a Shakira-style Latina singer for tax fraud.—
Marta Balaga,
Variety,
15 May 2025
Adjective
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Berrien is positioning himself as a staunch Trump backer in his first ads of the race.—
Scott Bauer,
Chicago Tribune,
14 July 2025
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The eventual confirmation of his passing, delivered by solemn White House and medical officials, triggered an outpouring of condolences from across the political spectrum, even from those who had been his staunchest opponents.—
Theo Burman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 July 2025
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“Right-wing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/right-wing. Accessed 20 Jul. 2025.
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