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democrat

[dem-uh-krat] / ˈdɛm əˌkræt /


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“I’m a small-d democrat, and I think that people will vote with their feet and will embrace this museum as their own.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

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

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

The outcry from Mexican democrats who cherish free speech has been extraordinary.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 2026

Nature Friends is a branch of Naturfreunde, founded in 1895 by social democrats to enrich the lives of factory workers in Vienna.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 22, 2025

"We democrats have to stop the finger-pointing, sit down together and find a position that lives up to that responsibility."

From Reuters Sep. 15, 2023

In 2018 Jacobson told Politico that there was "a new realignment brewing between centrist democrats and centrist republicans. In less than 10 years this new coalition will be the dominant political force in the country."

From Salon Jul. 20, 2023

The Magna Carta, the Petition of Rights and the Bill of Rights, are documents which are held in veneration by democrats throughout the world.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela




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