compromiser

noun

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as in accommodationist

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  1. accommodationist
  2. progressive
  3. reformer
Noun
  • 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
Definition of 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
Definition of progressive
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  • At the same time, religious reformers, like William Tyndale and Martin Luther, and, later, a committee of translators assembled by King James, translated the Bible into the languages of everyday people.
    Max Norman, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2024
  • There’s a private spa with a steam room and cold plunge, and a gym is stocked with a Pilates reformer, a Peloton bike and other high-end workout equipment.
    Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 5 Dec. 2024
Definition of reformer
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