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populist

[pop-yuh-list] / ˈpɒp jə lɪst /


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Hobson added that her focus has been on hammering home the museum’s populist themes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

"Shortsighted or populist reactions to underlying business challenges are not the answer," Ashley said in the letter.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

He also clashed with Khatami’s successor, firebrand Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, disapproving of his populist economic policies and aggressive provocations against the West, according to U.S. diplomatic cables.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

Tucker, the Democratic candidate for agriculture commissioner, is a fifth-generation Texan who ties his campaign to Texas’ populist movement and focuses on issues that receive the most petition signatures on his website.

From Salon ● Aug. 3, 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

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

The former valedictorian of an elite Baltimore prep school and Ivy League graduate shared posts on social media from an eclectic stream of populists, entrepreneurs, neuroscientists, centrists and disruptors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2024

In the first round, Torres’ competition came mostly from other conservative populists.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 12, 2023

How glib would have been the tongues of their orators in denouncing all who advocated the remonetization of gold as cranks, socialists, populists, anarchists, ne’er-do-wells, and Adullamites, kickers, visionaries, and frauds!

From If Not Silver, What? by John W. Bookwalter




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