revisionism

Example Sentences

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In a statement, organisers of the rallies decried the "violence, historical revisionism, and intimidation" of the past months, as the crowds marched with banners and signs.

From Barron's

Mr. Northam and other enlightened officials have called foul on that revisionism; so now has the state’s highest court.

From Washington Post

More significantly, the revisionism is a reminder of Biden’s erratic path on some foreign policy matters and suggests he has internalized the wrong lessons as he surrenders in our longest war.

From Washington Post

Do proponents of the Big Lie or insurrection revisionism actually believe their own nonsense?

From Salon

Scott called it “a disciplined, impassioned effort to bring clarity to a volatile moment, to dispense with the sentimentality and revisionism that too often cloud movies about the ’60s and about the politics of race.”

From New York Times