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Notably, he also warned people "not to be drawn into the influence of reactionary elements".

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

“Because we focus so much on the kind of retroactive or reactionary human caseload, we miss the opportunity to control the vector and to understand more about the vector,” LaDeau said.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

Instead of continuing to craft lazy and reactionary half-measures, policymakers must step up and deliver the protections the public wants and needs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

We need a coordinated maritime security framework that goes beyond reactionary naval escorts to include long-term diplomatic and economic safeguards.

From Barron's ● May 22, 2026

I knew that it was a reactionary project, but it at least showed that you were developing some political consciousness.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

In that very funny tract, Rosten addressed young baby boom radicals: leftists who had lost faith in America because of the war in Vietnam and reactionaries who wanted to ban hippies from college campuses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

After all, what could enrage reactionaries more than a confident, gender-bending, anti-colonial Puerto Rican performing in Spanish on the country’s most mythologized stage?

From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2026

We meet the Bollywood fan, the intense scientific genius, the band of cultural reactionaries, the Indian folklore cosplayers and so on.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2022

These young edgy reactionaries, she wrote, are associated with the buzzy but mostly nominal downtown Manhattan “Dimes Square” scene.

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2022

By co-operating with the Radicals and National Liberals, the progressive elements had a majority over the Conservative and Clerical reactionaries for the first time in the history of the empire.

From Socialism and Democracy in Europe by Samuel P. Orth