reactionary

While this may all sound a bit reactionary or like shooting fish in a barrel, Mungiu wisely complicates matters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 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

Ideally, clubs aim to work at least one window ahead, with one senior Premier League recruitment executive insisting anything else is "reactionary".

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

Instead of continuing to craft lazy and reactionary half-measures, policymakers must step up and deliver the protections the public wants and needs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 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

In that very funny tract, Rosten addressed young baby boom radicals: leftists who had lost faith in America because of the war in Vietnam and reactionaries who wanted to ban hippies from college campuses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

In a sense, these are true reactionaries, whereas totalitarianism tends to have a revolutionary element.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 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

This anti-clerical move provoked the wildest passions of the reactionaries, but it found an overwhelming support in the elections of 1902 and the bill became law.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various