How to Use anti-communist in a Sentence

anti-communist

adjective
  • 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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