confederate
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“Over two years ago, Richmond was home to more confederate statues than any city in the United States,” Mayor Stoney said in a statement on Twitter after the statue was gone.
From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2022
The first march I ever attended was a protest in January 2000, to bring down the confederate flag from the top of the South Carolina State House.
From Salon • Jul. 4, 2022
The bombastic Mayor Shinn of Jefferson Mays and overdecorated Mrs. Shinn of Jayne Houdyshell are turned into veritable sight gags; Shuler Hensley’s Marcellus, Hill’s confederate, is made to appear a witless errand boy.
From Washington Post • Feb. 11, 2022
The question was whether the students, who were unaware they were being observed, spontaneously behaved in a positive manner toward the confederate.
From Scientific American • Sep. 21, 2021
Housemaid, nurse, mother, confederate, counselor, chef—what ten thousand things was Madame Manec to Etienne?
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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