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noun

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Noun
  • The outline of the plan outraged conservatives who labeled it as a ploy to enable trans inclusion in women's sports.
    Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 27 Nov. 2024
  • In the meantime, progressive members of the Board of Supervisors—including Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California—lobbied against giving White, a conservative, his seat back.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Now, Red Lobster is trying to balance keeping its loyal customers while trying to shake its stodgy image to attract younger ones.
    Maya Huter, NBC News, 11 Nov. 2024
  • Positives for Marsch; stodgy France - The Briefing Yankees consider benching Anthony Rizzo for multiple games as struggles mount Capitals to purchase popular salary cap website CapFriendly Will Oilers tweak their defensive pairs?
    New York Times, New York Times, 9 June 2024
Noun
  • Rachmaninoff has gone from being widely viewed as a musical archconservative to a protomodernist.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Brat is an archconservative who knocked out an establishment Republican, but his district is changing.
    Dylan Scott, Vox, 11 June 2018
Adjective
  • Since then, McCarthy has had to tread somewhat lightly between the ultraright caucus and the rest of his party.
    Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Because Jesuits often sided with El Salvador’s poor and some kept records of human rights violations, they were hated by the country’s ultraright.
    New York Times, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2021
Adjective
  • By Marci Robin 5 Fragrances Trends That Will Take Over This Winter By Audrey Noble The right haircut can help accentuate your bone structure as much as your contour palette.
    Sam Escobar, Allure, 23 Nov. 2024
  • Last week, 50% of readers who took the quiz got eight or more questions right.
    Alexandra Banner, CNN, 22 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • In contrast to the depictions of suffragists as dowdy old maids, the woman portrayed in this postcard is conventionally attractive and fashionably dressed.
    Natalie Kinkade, JSTOR Daily, 25 Sep. 2024
  • At 570 Fifth, on the corner of West 46th Street, a new tower will soon rise to replace an array of dowdy prewar holdouts.
    Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 2 July 2024
Adjective
  • Trump, a staunch supporter of Israel, has strongly backed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s goal of destroying Hamas.
    Reuters, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
  • Republicans framed Vindman as a staunch partisan and were hoping his association to the impeachment would alienate moderate voters to the benefit of Anderson — particularly in a district where Spanberger had grown her popularity around a reputation for bipartisan consensus building.
    Mike Lillis, The Hill, 6 Nov. 2024
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