How to Use anti-communist in a Sentence
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His role in arranging the secret sale of weapons to Iran and the diversion of the proceeds to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua put him in the spotlight.
— Jake Offenhartz, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2024 -
The anti-communist fervor of the ’50s has become fascism.
— Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2024 -
Yes, the anti-communist proceedings and the way that her fellow scientists were caught up in these proceedings based on rumors and hearsay and things like that.
— Erica Huang, Scientific American, 24 Aug. 2023 -
Some, such as Henry Luce, the publisher of Time and Life, became ardent anti-communists.
— Clay Risen, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2023 -
Mad launched in 1952 at the height of anti-communist fervor and Jaffee arrived as a contributor three years later.
— Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2023 -
That move smacked of communism to the Truman administration during the anti-communist fervor of the time.
— USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2023 -
Nolan throws a lot into his IMAX-sized biography, from courtroom dramas to anti-communist fervor to academic in-fighting.
— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 July 2023 -
Cold War conditions brought Paraguay and Taiwan together in 1957, when both countries were ruled by anti-communist dictatorships.
— Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Apr. 2023 -
Through distribution points across Europe, the U.S. also sent millions of copies of anti-communist literature, including 1984, to Poland.
— Anne Wallentine, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 June 2024 -
For capturing Guevara, and thereby blunting Bolivia’s own left-wing insurgency against the country’s military leadership, Gen. Prado became a hero within the military and among its anti-communist supporters.
— Phil Davison, Washington Post, 9 May 2023 -
White Russians, the fiercely anti-communist aristocrats and generals who battled the Bolshevik Reds for more than five years starting in 1917 and then mostly fled into exile, were rehabilitated in official histories as patriots.
— Andrew Higgins, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2023 -
Conservatives have pushed anti-communist curriculums for a century.
— Dana Goldstein, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023 -
Even anti-communist hawks like former President Ronald Reagan pragmatically cut nuclear arms.
— Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 16 July 2023 -
Dariusz Stola began working with Poland’s anti-communist Solidarity movement in 1983.
— Vanessa Gera, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2023
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