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populist

[pop-yuh-list] / ˈpɒp jə lɪst /


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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

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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