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leftist

adjective as in left

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adjective as in left-wing

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noun as in left-winger

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Fellow talk-show host Dennis Prager has made the case that leftists, not conservatives, are liberals’ true enemy.

Their prospects also moved in tandem, reflecting their practice of campaigning together and hammering the common theme that their opponents were leftist radicals championing socialism.

From Fortune

Adrian, a leftist cryptocurrency enthusiastBroadly speaking, blockchain could serve socialists in two ways.

From Ozy

Last Sunday, Bolivia elected 57-year-old Luis Arce as its next president in a landslide win for the leftist Movement for Socialism — widely known as MAS — of former leader Evo Morales.

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San Diego, a small city at the southern edge of California, was especially suspicious of leftists as it watched the revolution in Mexico with alarm.

A ceasefire by leftist rebels in Colombia could close the last one.

And then, if Pope Francis is still with us, we may well see the leftist saints come marching in.

If modernism was going to be acceptable, its leftist leanings had to be gotten rid of.

Pollsters have been predicting disillusioned leftist voters are particularly likely to abstain.

It stands, in short, for everything a leftist should detest.

I remember several of the Dallas real conservatives called that Dallas council very leftist.

I don't think you can call a man an extreme leftist, rightist, or middle-of-the-roader and have him classified that simply.

Ray has always had the propaganda that he is a leftist and that he is Castro without Castro.

Gramsci, the Sardinian leftist philosopher, suggested the need for a language of the proletariat.

I have in mind—was this in your opinion a rightist plot, a leftist plot, an anarchist plot?

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

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