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liberal

adjective as in abundant, profuse

adjective as in not strict or literal

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Map out his attacks, subtracting the purely personal and the primarily partisan, and you’ll see that they converge on a profound disgust for the liberal international order.

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It’s frequently a political football, with conservatives seeing a leftist slant in its news output and some liberals accusing it of having a conservative bias.

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The 1st Circuit is currently the country’s most liberal, with five active judges, all of whom were named to the bench by Democratic presidents.

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In this liberal fantasy, evangelicals embrace Israel because its existence begins the final countdown to Armageddon.

It has demonstrated over the centuries a deep faith in human betterment through liberal reformism and social engineering.

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