as in conservativeness
attitudes or opinions tending to favor established ideas, conditions, or institutions
the state's well-known conservatism means that progressive legislation always has an uphill battle
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Bass-playing in a rock context is oftentimes the lone bastion of conservatism: Just keep the beat.
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Jordan Hoffman, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2024
Later, with the election of Ronald Reagan and the embrace of free market conservatism in the 1980s up until the inauguration of Donald Trump, the Republicans reversed their historic protectionism to become champions of free trade.
—Bruce J. Schulman / Made By History, TIME, 24 Oct. 2024
With anticommunists, merit obsessives, and law-and-order defenders, the tripartite structure of Asian-American conservatism should make for easy integration.
—Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
Carter himself was defeated after one-term by Ronald Reagan, who ushered in a new era of conservatism.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2024
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Jordan Hoffman, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2024
Later, with the election of Ronald Reagan and the embrace of free market conservatism in the 1980s up until the inauguration of Donald Trump, the Republicans reversed their historic protectionism to become champions of free trade.
—Bruce J. Schulman / Made By History, TIME, 24 Oct. 2024
With anticommunists, merit obsessives, and law-and-order defenders, the tripartite structure of Asian-American conservatism should make for easy integration.
—Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
Carter himself was defeated after one-term by Ronald Reagan, who ushered in a new era of conservatism.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2024
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