populist
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The court rejected requests for Mladic's release on health grounds, a move the populist leader labelled "unprecedented and unjustifiable behaviour".
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
"Shortsighted or populist reactions to underlying business challenges are not the answer," Ashley said in the letter.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
In some large counties, Jackson won every delegate at stake as a plurality of convention attendees simply voted for the populist Democrat’s slate.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
There’s an equivalency with Platner, and some of it has to do with a populist style of politics.
From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026
Indeed, it is possible to date the chasm that was to develop between the populist mainstream and the classical avant-garde in music to this place and time.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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Macron, who attended the country’s top schools, “has become the embodiment of everything populists hate,” said Olivier Costa, a research professor at the Paris-based Sciences Po university and France’s National Center for Scientific Research.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
These shamanistic masks have long been a mainstay of populists.
From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2025
In the first round, Torres’ competition came mostly from other conservative populists.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 12, 2023
Finns go the polls on Sunday, in an election seen as a neck-and-neck race between right-wing populists, conservatives and Prime Minister Sanna Marin's centre left.
From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2023
Thus we see the growth of labour organisations, and the spread of populists and socialists, who demand new rights and a greater share in the products of labour.
From Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy by David Grayson
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