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left wing

noun as in person or group favoring change

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The left-wing blogosphere was all over a report that the House GOP was cutting Ebola funding.

Christie, with his Jersey Boy charm and willingness to butt heads when necessary, has long been a threat to the left wing.

Perry has also benefited from the fact that the national media—the right-wing and the left-wing—seem to be in his corner.

The left-wing bien-pensant read it for the purpose of expressing shocked outrage, the right-wing as a source for its outrage.

Dating back to 1883, the building was once a publishing headquarters for left-wing newspapers like L'Humanité.

As it was he had to press Nejdi into a fast gallop before he could clear the left wing of the advancing army.

In the operations ending in Ulm the second corps formed part of the left wing.

Thereafter his division formed the left wing of the French army under Brune.

In 1799 he was sent to command a division of the Army of Italy, and commanded the left wing at the battle of Novi.

The left wing of the force will occupy the shrubbery; the right will push on and blow up the gate.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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