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populist

[pop-yuh-list] / ˈpɒp yə lɪst /


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Shaw has framed her campaign as a populist effort against a failed and self-interested status quo establishment.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

"He has shaped the image of the first populist president, the first acclaimed strongman of the 21st Century."

From BBC • May 30, 2026

As Capp explains, "This was a sort of populist political gesture, essentially inviting the moral support of the crowd."

From Science Daily • May 7, 2026

With this single line, Ms. Osmon writes, Mr. Springsteen “transformed into a populist leader.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

For a good part of the eighteenth and all of the nineteenth century, the populist, light, tuneful Italian style of opera was what most people went to an opera house for.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall




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