antiestablishment

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Recent Examples of antiestablishment The antiestablishment mood that displayed itself in 2016 with Donald Trump’s election as U.S. president and the U.K.’s referendum vote to leave the European Union continued to shake up the political order on both sides of the Atlantic in 2018. WSJ, 17 Dec. 2018 Also weighing on yields were concerns about plans by the antiestablishment government in Italy to boost fiscal spending by increasing borrowing to fund a larger budget deficit. Daniel Kruger, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2018 Quickly rising to become part of London fashion’s antiestablishment establishment, his 1995 London Fashion Week show received the ultimate Establishment hat tip: It was attended by Diana, Princess of Wales. Luke Leitch, Vogue, 3 Jan. 2019 At the extremes of the political spectrum, antiestablishment parties on the far right and far left are expected to gain at least a third of seats in the new European Parliament, according to Poll of Polls, an EU opinion polls aggregator. Valentina Pop, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2018 See All Example Sentences for antiestablishment
Recent Examples of Synonyms for antiestablishment
Adjective
  • For families that seek to spread out vaccines with an alternative schedule, dismissals are much less common: just 8% of individual pediatricians reported often or always dismissing these families, while 28% reported that their office has such a dismissal policy, according to the academy.
    Jenny Gold, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Companies can support and encourage employees to develop their own at-home office spaces or use alternative workspaces, like co-working spaces, that offer structure without long commutes.
    Sarah Travers, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Across sports and eras, there are too many examples of athletes with ‘unconventional’ form succeeding for ‘good form’ — whatever that is — to be truly necessary.
    Liam Tharme, The Athletic, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Barnes had an unconventional approach to art collecting, particularly through his focus on juxtaposing fine art with decorative pieces.
    Meredith Wolf Schizer, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Celebrated annually on March 26, Air Max Day was established in 2014 to honor the debut of Nike’s revolutionary Air Max technology.
    Tiana Randall, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Then, Netanyahu was attempting something revolutionary and unpopular and also had to worry about public pressure fracturing his coalition at the outset of his term.
    Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Instead, communities should prioritize planning that includes traditional responders like the American Red Cross and local emergency management, as well as nontraditional responders like churches, local nonprofits and neighborhood groups.
    Trevor Riggen, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
  • There are also nontraditional private companies that specialize in higher-risk properties.
    Ron Lieber, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • This week, Alphonse grapples with the yearning for the 2000s in UK underground rap videos.
    Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 21 Mar. 2025
  • In that time, Tucci appeared in a number of films as either a foot soldier, don, or other apparatchik of an underground criminal organization, including Quick Change, Men of Respect, Billy Bathgate, and The Public Eye.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The movie, based on the video game of the same name, centers around four misfits who are suddenly pulled through a mysterious portal into a bizarre, cubic wonderland that thrives on imagination.
    Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 30 Mar. 2025
  • But their work didn’t rule out the possibility of bizarre algorithms that could somehow use the same piece of memory for storage and calculations simultaneously—the computing equivalent of using a page filled with important notes as scratch paper.
    Ben Brubaker, Wired News, 30 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Alon-Lee Green, the founding co-director of Standing Together, a progressive grassroots movement, told CNN that young people aren’t at fault for the extremist attitudes that are dividing wider Israeli society.
    Kara Fox, CNN Money, 28 Mar. 2025
  • California voters further reversed progressive policies by passing Proposition 36, which enhances penalties for theft and drug offenses.
    Carson Becker, The Washington Examiner, 28 Mar. 2025

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“Antiestablishment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antiestablishment. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.

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