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prohibitionist

[proh-uh-bish-uh-nist] / ˌproʊ əˈbɪʃ ə nɪst /




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The Senators owner, a prohibitionist through and through, made things harder on himself by subsisting without a source of revenue that other teams availed themselves of.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 11, 2023

Most of the shops are to be operated by people of color who had been incarcerated by prohibitionist laws.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2023

The disease notion, however, obscures those facts and narrows our view to counterproductive criminal responses, like harsh prohibitionist crackdowns.

From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2022

But she concedes that if young people feel they are living under an prohibitionist regime then "we need to listen to them".

From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2017

"I am afraid it will," she replied "Pa is a prohibitionist, you know."

From The New Pun Book by Thomas A. Brown


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