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communist

[kom-yuh-nist] / ˈkɒm jə nɪst /


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As they submitted their American passports and entered the communist colossus, they appeared to be musicians, as indeed they were.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

After the communist government fell in 1991, his family was handed ownership of its chunk of peninsula farmland, which had since gone fallow.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 9, 2026

But the decree represents a significant loosening of decades-old communist doctrine.

From Barron's Jul. 29, 2026

In 1942, when one of the leaders of the House Un-American Activities Committee baselessly accused the famous educator and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune of being a communist, Smith sprang into action.

From Salon Jul. 27, 2026

Kim Jong II inherited his dictatorial control of North Korea from his father in 1994—the first hereditary succession in the communist world.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

But the DSA’s big tent also accommodates dedicated Marxists and communists, including several of its 27-member National Political Committee.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 29, 2026

During the McCarthy era, overreaching laws, surveillance, and public and private sector reprisals ostensibly targeted alleged communists.

From Salon May 28, 2026

Brown and black coal mining employed about 100,000 people in the 1980s, when the former Czechoslovakia was ruled by Moscow-steered communists promoting heavy industry.

From Barron's Jan. 29, 2026

Lai was born in Guangzhou, a city in southern China, to a wealthy family that lost everything when the communists took power in 1949.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2025

Up close the city constitutes an oppressive series of staircases, but from a distance it inspires fantasies of wealth and power so profound that even our communists are temporarily rendered speechless.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris




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