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Recent Examples of demagogic
These were the kind of comments that Republicans of the past might have seen at Democratic conventions and viewed as demagogic.
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Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 18 July 2024
First off, reading out demagogic business bashing scripts is not Biden’s nature.
—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, TIME, 26 June 2024
This time, an incumbent president had narrowly defeated a demagogic challenger, who was refusing to concede.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 26 Jan. 2024
Within a year, Fulbright had helped persuade 66 other senators to join him in censuring McCarthy and ending his demagogic run.
—Charles King, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2021
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Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 18 July 2024
First off, reading out demagogic business bashing scripts is not Biden’s nature.
—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, TIME, 26 June 2024
This time, an incumbent president had narrowly defeated a demagogic challenger, who was refusing to concede.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 26 Jan. 2024
Within a year, Fulbright had helped persuade 66 other senators to join him in censuring McCarthy and ending his demagogic run.
—Charles King, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for demagogic
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Tarrio was serving a 22-year prison sentence — the longest handed down in connection to the Capitol attack — after he was convicted of seditious conspiracy and other charges.—
Sarah Fortinsky,
The Hill,
6 Feb. 2025
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His clemency toward those convicted of crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection – including seditious conspiracy and assaults on police officers – was different in key ways from the two previous efforts, by Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Ulysses S. Grant in 1873.—
David Cason,
The Conversation,
7 Mar. 2025
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Their stories are full of danger: treacherous rivers, unforgiving terrain, and the constant threat of violence and exploitation.—
Alan Taylor,
The Atlantic,
27 Mar. 2025
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But in between lies a tense and treacherous journey…In Wolof and French with English subtitles.—
Ut Community Press,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Mar. 2025
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But what will their first move as a traitorous duo be?—
Tom Smyth,
Vulture,
27 Feb. 2025
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The blame for this terrifying scenario, McCarthy declared, rested with traitorous federal employees, who had sold their country out and had to be purged from its service.—
Made by History,
TIME,
9 Feb. 2025
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The rift deepened after Trump left office, with the then-former president describing his former Joint Chiefs chairman as treasonous for calling a senior Chinese military official to defuse fears of a potential U.S. attack.—
Davis Winkie,
USA TODAY,
20 Jan. 2025
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By then, no official blacklist existed but she was routinely assailed by right wingers as a treasonous ingrate and tool of Hanoi.—
Thomas Doherty,
The Hollywood Reporter,
19 Feb. 2025
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“Demagogic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/demagogic. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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