reactionary
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As reactionary as that sounds, I was totally rapt.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
We need a coordinated maritime security framework that goes beyond reactionary naval escorts to include long-term diplomatic and economic safeguards.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
Kennedy has a real talent for taking reactionary, often sadistic ideas and reframing them to sound compassionate and therapeutic.
From Salon ● May 18, 2026
Parnell died of pneumonia the next year, at 45, leaving behind the legend of a great man brought low by reactionary forces.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
There is no doubt that your grandfather’s reactionary class standing had a bad influence on your father’s thoughts, and he naturally passed them on to you.
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
In a sense, these are true reactionaries, whereas totalitarianism tends to have a revolutionary element.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2025
He shares with the architectural reactionaries the impulse toward rawer, less manufactured surroundings.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2023
We meet the Bollywood fan, the intense scientific genius, the band of cultural reactionaries, the Indian folklore cosplayers and so on.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2022
Warwick, afterwards duke of Northumberland, however, overcame the reactionaries in the Council, and early in 1550 the Reformation resumed its course.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various
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