republican
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It stopped briefly for a man in paramilitary-style uniform to lay a wreath at the republican monument in Creggan.
From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026
The Provisional IRA - the main armed republican paramilitary group for most of the Troubles - declared a ceasefire in the run up to the agreement and officially ended its violent campaign in 2005.
From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026
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
And his desire for secular immortality didn’t mean he was pretending to have lofty republican sensibilities.
From Slate • Feb. 16, 2026
In both instances his posture of public probity—slavery should be ended and political parties were evil agents that corrupted republican values—was at odds with his personal behavior and political interest.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Vocabulary lists containing republican
Lincoln Inaugural Address (March 1861)
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"What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" Vocabulary from the speech
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Chapter 3, Sections 1–2
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