reactionary

Example Sentences

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Investors are waking up to the harsh realities and the financial penalties of a reordered, reactionary world.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

"If believing in God is reactionary, then we are also reactionary," he told his party's meeting in parliament on Tuesday.

From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026

"It's incompetence, it's reactionary," says Marcus Carter, professor of human-computer interaction at the University of Sydney.

From BBC • Dec. 12, 2025

Or it might have been a more loosely formed group of reactionary zealots.

From Slate • Dec. 1, 2025

He said he would bring out a reactionary force if I needed one.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell