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

“That changed everything,” said David Brauer, a retired journalist who wrote for Minneapolis publications and who identifies as a center-left social democrat.

From Slate • Nov. 3, 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

"Putin had shown himself to be a liberal and a democrat, who wanted to continue market reforms," said Valentin Yumashev, who told Yeltsin he would make a "superb candidate".

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2024

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