liberalism
Example Sentences
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Academics will argue endlessly about whether the world runs on either competitive realism or cooperative liberalism.
From Barron's • Jan. 5, 2026
Despite his fierce liberalism, Reiner built relationships with conservatives including Fox News host Laura Ingraham and actor James Woods, earning their respect.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2025
The simile is arresting: modern European proponents of welfare-state liberalism likened to a dying class of 19th-century hereditary nobles, confident in their rightness and desperate to rest.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
Liberal women have to navigate complex gender politics, too, but there’s less of an inherent ideological conflict between liberalism itself and women seeking power.
From Slate • Nov. 22, 2025
In the world Michael-Mary Graham inhabited, her mild liberalism, a residue of her Bohemian youth, and her posture of sensitive lady poet passed for anarchy.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
