accommodationist

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Recent Examples of accommodationist Bob Michel, the longtime accommodationist who treated Democratic House majorities as an unalterable fact of life, faded away, and the pugilistic Newt Gingrich ascended. Ed Burmila, The New Republic, 15 June 2022 Many African American activists had broken with King, advocating Black Power rather than racial reconciliation, abandoning nonviolence, and denouncing King as an accommodationist. Drew Gilpin Faust, The Atlantic, 18 July 2019 Ava DuVernay is Hollywood’s current reigning accommodationist. Armond White, National Review, 10 July 2019 To Douthat Francis is an accommodationist, and decline has reached the apex of the church. Paul Elie, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for accommodationist
Noun
  • The philosophical question is whether progressives and conservatives should welcome affirmative action for kids who overcame disadvantages in their youth—especially what’s often the most difficult disadvantage of all: growing up in a single-parent family.
    Michael J. Petrilli, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
  • At the same time, many American progressives and others have been demanding the U.S. suspend arm shipments to Israel altogether because of the death toll among Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
    Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The studio used a technique created by Ub Iwerks, the legendary Disney animator and inventor who was one of Walt's oldest collaborators.
    Sean Keane, ABC News, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Amy Grant and Vince Gill's Relationship Timeline Gill later traded with Grant, appearing in her seasonal benefit show in Nashville that same year, and the two quickly became friends and occasional collaborators.
    Nancy Kruh, People.com, 26 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Like Trump, Carlson appeals to his base by positioning himself as a class traitor—not a man of the people, exactly, but an apostate from the cosmopolitan élite.
    Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Cumming will lead a new group of 21 traitors from across a variety of other reality series.
    Anne Easton, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The rhythmic chant echoed through Ball Arena, emanating from a small but spirited contingent of Knicks fans in the sellout crowd.
    Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Crosby made a sellout crowd wait to witness history that night.
    Rob Rossi, The Athletic, 25 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Erdogan, meanwhile, lambasted Kilicdaroglu as a quisling who is in cahoots with the West and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, a Kurdish separatist group that both Ankara and Washington consider a terrorist entity.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2023
  • And Kilicdaroglu was an easy mark for Erdogan, who has belittled him for years and cast him during the campaign as both a terrorist and a quisling for Western interests — accusations that stuck in the minds of some voters.
    Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 27 May 2023
Noun
  • Others to Watch: Marc Andreessen: A vc worth $1.9 billion, Andreessen made waves as an ex-Democrat donating to pro-Trump groups—among the first key Silicon Valley turncoats—and went to Mar-A-Lago on election night.
    Joe Walsh, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2024
  • Some of you certainly want Cowboy-loving turncoat Isaac shipped off to Axios Dallas, pronto.
    Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 27 Nov. 2024

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“Accommodationist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/accommodationist. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.

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