How to Use Whig in a Sentence
Whig
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After the caustic irony of the Whigs, the sincerity is jarring.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2023
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King was elected to the state's second constitutional convention as a Whig.
—Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 16 Nov. 2022
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The radical Whig revolution failed in London, derailed by the backlash to the French Revolution.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
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The pragmatic Whig politician Abraham Lincoln learned from the abolitionists’ mistake.
—Jack Snyder, Foreign Affairs, 21 July 2022
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Webb’s newspaper catered to his (mostly) Whig subscribers, and its pages were filled with biased partisan commentary and correspondence submitted by his Whig friends.
—Michael J. Socolow, The Conversation, 7 Dec. 2020
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Politically, these tensions split and ultimately destroyed the old Whig Party, in which Lincoln had spent most of his political career, inspiring anti-immigration nativists to form a political organization of their own.
—Harold Holzer, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Feb. 2024
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