republican

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The court was played a recording of a video of Adams at a republican rally in August 1995, where he was quoted as saying "they haven't gone away, you know", in reference to the IRA.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

And his desire for secular immortality didn’t mean he was pretending to have lofty republican sensibilities.

From Slate • Feb. 16, 2026

It was also a time when various European empires were reaching their peak yet faced republican or nationalistic revolts.

From BBC • Feb. 15, 2026

Once the zeal of republican liberty cooled, 19th-century universities provided homes to such scientists of sacrifice as ethnographers, philologists, sociologists, historians and anthropologists.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 25, 2026

In most European states, he went on to argue, it was probably necessary for the monarchy to remain hereditary for the foreseeable future, in order to permit a more gradual transition to full-blown republican principles.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis