socialist
noun
so·cial·ist
ˈsō-sh(ə-)list 
1
: one who advocates or practices socialism
2
capitalized
: a member of a party or political group advocating socialism
socialist
adjective
often capitalized
Examples of socialist in a Sentence
a lifelong socialist who never lost faith in his cause
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Wagner’s a socialist; the F1 paddock is a scene of ultrawealth.
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Longreads, 18 Dec. 2024
The dramedy starred Katrin Sass as a devoted socialist with a weak heart who falls into a coma in October 1989, shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Dec. 2024
We’re cursed with loudmouth, throwback hippie socialists in high places, but Arlington’s a pretty, quiet town bracketed by mountains and made famous by Norman Rockwell, who lived and did his best work here from the 1930s into the ’50s.
—Brian T. Allen, National Review, 19 Dec. 2024
Forte, on the campaign trail, had leaned heavily into the argument that Ocasio-Cortez and her fellow Democrats are socialists.
—Mike Lillis, The Hill, 6 Nov. 2024
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Longreads, 18 Dec. 2024
The dramedy starred Katrin Sass as a devoted socialist with a weak heart who falls into a coma in October 1989, shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Dec. 2024
We’re cursed with loudmouth, throwback hippie socialists in high places, but Arlington’s a pretty, quiet town bracketed by mountains and made famous by Norman Rockwell, who lived and did his best work here from the 1930s into the ’50s.
—Brian T. Allen, National Review, 19 Dec. 2024
Forte, on the campaign trail, had leaned heavily into the argument that Ocasio-Cortez and her fellow Democrats are socialists.
—Mike Lillis, The Hill, 6 Nov. 2024
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“Socialist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/socialist. Accessed 15 Jan. 2025.
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