pacifist
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She used to consider herself a pacifist, and saw weapons purely as instruments of pain and destruction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Nimbly, it manages to be both a pacifist film and a subversive one with no faith in the system as it stands.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Miyazaki is a noted pacifist, but “Princess Mononoke” is his most humanist work.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi was heckled at a World War II memorial event by protesters angry about Tokyo's further shift away from its decades-long pacifist stance, television footage showed.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
There were pacifist zones where no player-versus-player combat was allowed, and player-versus-player zones where it was every avatar for themselves.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
A group of young people told the BBC they were "pacifists" who are "just trying to make things change, but nothing is moving".
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
Mr. Kurlansky’s heart seems to lie with the pacifists, even as he recognizes their practical shortcomings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2025
And such a recognition wasn’t confined to pacifists but extended to policymakers.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2025
The Amish are pacifists, he hastened to add.
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2024
As pacifists, many Quaker men refused to vote, as a protest against government engagement in war.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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