republican

Example Sentences

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During Elizabeth II’s 70-year reign, the longest in over 1,000 years of royal rule, republican forces opposing the crown were essentially invisible.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

Making a government—a good, republican government, at least—requires nothing short of a miracle.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

In 2011, the late Labour MP Paul Flynn, a staunch republican, called on MPs "to remove the bandages from our mouths" when it came to royalty.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026

And his desire for secular immortality didn’t mean he was pretending to have lofty republican sensibilities.

From Slate • Feb. 16, 2026

In the Southeast, the Igbo lived in small republican communities.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie