reactionary
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Notably, he also warned people "not to be drawn into the influence of reactionary elements".
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
“Because we focus so much on the kind of retroactive or reactionary human caseload, we miss the opportunity to control the vector and to understand more about the vector,” LaDeau said.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
Policymakers also must avoid reactionary laws that do more harm than good.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
As reactionary as that sounds, I was totally rapt.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
That’s what first made them call her a reactionary.
From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang
Deeply discount the moaning of Hollywood reactionaries and certain podcasters trying to edge themselves into the spotlight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 9, 2025
There was a minority within the movement, he admits, who were not real conservatives, but reactionaries.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2025
In moving his antihero between Vietnam and 1970s California, home of self-obsessed good vibrations, conflicted refugees and rabid anti-communist reactionaries, Nguyen reveals a series of rich dichotomies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2025
He shares with the architectural reactionaries the impulse toward rawer, less manufactured surroundings.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2023
Le Nordez of Dijon, were on bad terms with the clerical reactionaries in their dioceses.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" by Various
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