absolutist
Example Sentences
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The looser controls on Grok, and Musk’s absolutist stance on free speech, have made it a more attractive choice to the Pentagon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
This evokes the absolutist rhetoric of Louis XIV’s worst sycophants, which Saint-Simon despised.
From Slate ● May 30, 2025
Describing the judgement as an "unreasonably absolutist definition of free speech", the university warned that the ruling left institutions facing "opposing and irreconcilable duties" which rendered them "powerless to prevent abusive, bullying and harassing speech".
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2025
She was a First Amendment absolutist when it came to humor, but comedy evolves and one generation’s daring hilarity is another’s insensitive cruelty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2024
By "legal" press, "legal" liberals are meant the open public press and those liberals who were trying to comply with the legal requirements of absolutism even in their work of condemning the absolutist order.
From Our Revolution Essays on Working-Class and International Revolution, 1904-1917 by Leon Davidovich Trotzky
