How to Use revanchist in a Sentence

revanchist

1 of 2 adjective

• As at its end, a European country — then Yugoslavia, now Ukraine — is being torn apart by a revanchist dictator.
  — Noah Millman, The Week, 3 Mar. 2022
• Weiner puts us inside a revanchist Kremlin, angry at its lost empire and happy to make Americans pay for it.
  — Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2020
• The possibility of a revanchist Nazi movement coming to power was not unthinkable at the time.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 6 June 2019
• Instead, Putin is on his own revanchist journey of restoring Russia’s empire.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2022
• Each time around, B. has confidently predicted a GOP landslide, and each time, he’s been wrong, settling deeper into revanchist fury.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2023
• The coup brought a revanchist evangelist right-wing to power in Bolivia, which repeatedly put off new elections for nearly a year, when Morales’ party won the presidency.
  — Laura Weiss, The New Republic, 11 Jan. 2021
• Instead of being forced to reckon with the ashes of empire, a revanchist dictator has throttled Russia’s politics, and turned his sights on now carving his neighbors.
  — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 22 Feb. 2022
• The opposition figure’s few comments on the Ukrainian region came in the swirl surrounding Russia’s initial 2014 invasion, when Putin first launched his revanchist project in Ukraine.
  — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 4 Oct. 2022
• The revanchist culture war Donald Trump has declared on liberals, the mainstream media, and most members of Congress in his own party may only be beginning.
  — Tina Nguyen, The Hive, 24 Aug. 2017
• Thousands of miles away, officials from another country facing up to a revanchist neighbor are taking notes.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2022
• Three decades later, Ukrainians still continue to fight for independence from a revanchist Moscow.
  — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 16 Dec. 2022
• Putting a significant part of your energy-supply system in the hands of an aggressive, revanchist state like Russia is to offer a potent geopolitical lever.
  — Jordan McGillis, National Review, 10 Mar. 2022
• His political failures helped usher in a revanchist, right-wing surge that still saturates Russia, and that threatens nuclear warfare once more.
  — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 31 Aug. 2022
• That commitment has been welcomed by allied nations, which want Germany to rearm and help counter a revanchist Russia — a stunning historical reversal.
  — Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2022
• It’s startling the way the word ‘‘Breitbart’’ has become iconographic, referring not really to the website or the company but to an amorphous mass of revanchist opinions for which Breitbart receives credit or blame.
  — Wil S. Hylton, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2017
• As for French cinema, Daney writes incisively about the revanchist politics of nineteen-seventies France and the resulting decadence of French cinema.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2022
• Since the August day 31 years ago when a group of leaders in the nearby parliament shocked the nation by declaring independence from the collapsing Soviet Union, the country has periodically fought to keep itself apart from a revanchist Russia.
  — Serhiy Morgunov, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2022
• Preoccupations like these have fuelled a revanchist current in education, which has taken many forms.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2022
• Yes, some of the truly revanchist ideas that pervaded in football have faded, but chalking these developments up entirely to enlightenment is a comforting delusion.
  — Robert Silverman, Rolling Stone, 12 Feb. 2023
• Faced with the prospect of this revelation, some recoil, taking solace in revanchist notions of separation, nationalism, and self-reliance laced with magical thinking.
  — Astra Taylor, The New Republic, 6 May 2021
• While never producing evidence for his claim, Putin cited his need to defend them — underpinned by his revanchist view that much of Ukraine exists on territory that is historically Russia’s.
  — Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2022
• Of particular interest to Beijing will be how quickly and decisively European powers have moved to sever economic ties to a revanchist Russia.
  — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 May 2022
• And its clientele in this revanchist effort includes oil companies fearing clean-energy cars and also an auto industry that now sees an opportunity to batten on low oil prices and the consequent consumer lust for gas-guzzling trucks and SUVs.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 3 Apr. 2018
• But many Europeans are no longer interested in being sensitive to a figure like Putin or tolerating his revanchist resentments and neo-imperial ambitions.
  — Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2022
• Russia, meanwhile, replaced Soviet rule with a revanchist autocracy.
  — The Economist, 7 Dec. 2019
• As at its end, a European country — then Yugoslavia, now Ukraine — is being torn apart by a revanchist dictator.
  — Noah Millman, The Week, 3 Mar. 2022
• Weiner puts us inside a revanchist Kremlin, angry at its lost empire and happy to make Americans pay for it.
  — Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2020
• The possibility of a revanchist Nazi movement coming to power was not unthinkable at the time.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 6 June 2019
• Instead, Putin is on his own revanchist journey of restoring Russia’s empire.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2022
• Each time around, B. has confidently predicted a GOP landslide, and each time, he’s been wrong, settling deeper into revanchist fury.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2023

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revanchist

2 of 2 noun

• For a revanchist Russia, on the other hand, the upsides are crystal clear.
  — Jonah Shepp, Daily Intelligencer, 29 June 2018
• The revanchist canon this produces can be reactionary in its own way.
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 25 July 2022
• Alarmed by the danger posed by a revanchist Russia, Finland is now ready to join the Atlantic Alliance.
  — The Editors, National Review, 13 May 2022
• The difference between then and now, Bronski said, is that this is the revanchists’ last stand.
  — Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2023
• On many levels, the challenge Mr. Putin’s revanchist Russia presents to the West is different.
  — New York Times, 22 Feb. 2022
• It is invaded by a revanchist Russia, led by a former KGB colonel.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 14 Sep. 2022
• For the revanchist right, the plight of American men is existential.
  — Idrees Kahloon, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2023
• As the trailer for Dial of Destiny reveals, these old villains return in a new revanchist form.
  — Petar Parvanov, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 July 2023
• Back in the day, revanchist plutocrats would have been grateful to see the United States slouching towards oligarchy.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 5 Oct. 2017
• The treaty led to an embittered and revanchist Germany and dissatisfied victors in Italy and Japan.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 16 Mar. 2022
• But the Russian leader’s morphing over the past two decades from mere autocrat to aggressive revanchist is the game changer.
  — Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2022
• The punitive peace meted out by the victors forced Germany to cede lands in the east, such that even Germany’s democratic parties soon rallied around a revanchist agenda.
  — Josef Joffe, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2018
• But Biden now has an opportunity to reverse this process and put an end to Smotrich’s revanchist ambitions.
  — Martin Indyk, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2023
• He has been widely characterized as a revanchist who seeks to restore the Soviet or czarist empires.
  — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Feb. 2022
• My objections to the revanchist regime in Moscow, unlike those of many Democrats, started long before November 8.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 23 Sep. 2017
• The confluence of the rise of revanchist Xi’s Communist China and its strategic nuclear breakout underscores what has been dubbed the decade of danger.
  — Rebeccah Heinrichs, National Review, 29 May 2023
• Once the revanchist Vladimir Putin entrenched himself in Moscow, the specter of a long campaign of irredentist subterfuge and violence became a reality.
  — David Faris, The Week, 31 Jan. 2022
• Amid this frenzy, Pruitt was unveiling one of the cornerstones of his revanchist environmental policy on Tuesday.
  — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 3 Apr. 2018
• Griffith was a sincere revanchist; Riefenstahl, more sophisticated, took refuge in her opportunism.
  — The New Republic, 22 June 2023
• Maybe so, but the more pessimistic view is that Putin represents a now-entrenched revanchist nationalism that sees the liberal international order as a mere smokescreen for the advancement of Western political agendas.
  — Daniel Beer, New York Times, 6 July 2018
• Liberal democracy now faces a fearsome challenge, not just from a revanchist Russia but from a rising, authoritarian super power in China.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 24 Feb. 2022
• Putin also openly stated his revanchist, imperialist goals, declaring that Ukraine was not a real country and making the ahistorical suggestion that it should be subsumed back into mother Russia.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 29 June 2022
• More than 100 years after Le Corbusier’s revolution, modernist design still retains a revanchist hold, especially in the upper strata of prestige.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 23 Oct. 2023
• An autonomous Europe without the guiding hand of Washington, however, would be prone to dithering, duplication, and drift — and vulnerable to division by a revanchist Russia and emerging China.
  — Peter Rough, National Review, 27 Sep. 2020
• Theater performances and museum exhibits are subject to censorship and increasingly present a vision of the nation’s past that is revanchist, anticommunist, and preoccupied with its medieval roots.
  — Jacob Mikanowski, Harper's magazine, 21 July 2019
• Indiscriminate missile and artillery strikes, massacres, torture, and rape are designed to traumatize Ukraine’s civilian population and exhaust its will to resist Moscow’s revanchist aggression.
  — Nate Sibley, National Review, 21 June 2023
• But last month, Alternative for Germany, the country’s anti-immigration party, made major electoral gains, signifying that the continent’s revanchist forces were still a force to be reckoned with. Sunday’s results only confirmed that reality.
  — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 15 Oct. 2017
• Trump’s populism is nativist, revanchist, and ultimately unachievable.
  — Michelle Cottle, The Atlantic, 31 July 2017
• For a revanchist Russia, on the other hand, the upsides are crystal clear.
  — Jonah Shepp, Daily Intelligencer, 29 June 2018
• The revanchist canon this produces can be reactionary in its own way.
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 25 July 2022

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