democrat

Example Sentences

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Critics call him extreme, though he recently told AFP he was a democrat who would "respect the constitution."

From Barron's • Mar. 9, 2026

He could be pretty high-and-mighty, and certainly not exactly a small-d democrat.

From Slate • Feb. 16, 2026

But an increasing number of Reeves's fellow MPs across Labour's political spectrum - from social democrat to hard left - are now begging to differ.

From BBC • May 24, 2025

Gibbon, no democrat, spent much of his time reading voraciously and carried some English biases and feuds into his writing, but he illuminated Augustus’ strategies in ways that America’s framers found sobering, cautionary and salutary.

From Salon • Feb. 17, 2025

He was student, voluptuary, soldier, prisoner, author, diplomatist, exile, pauper, courtier, democrat, orator, statesman, traitor.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various