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
That decision sent shock waves through the permitting departments in San Francisco and Los Angeles, explained Jacob Anbinder, a historian working on a book about anti-growth liberalism.
From Slate • Jul. 2, 2025
The fact that Lazar Sidelsky, one of the firm’s partners, would take on a young African as an articled clerk — something almost unheard of in those days — was evidence of that liberalism.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
