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conservatism

noun as in opposition to change

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It has precedent in the last 100 years of the history of conservatism, which, for a time, was not just in the Republican Party, but also included the Jim Crow Southern Democrats.

From Salon

Mushtaq's stories, including in Heart Lamp, focus on the challenges women, especially Muslim women, face due to religious conservatism and a deeply patriarchal society.

From BBC

The book sets out Vance's developing political ideas as it charts his move towards conservatism.

From BBC

Audiences are clamoring for great theatrical comedies, but laughter shouldn’t come at the cost of progressiveness, especially in a moment when so much of the media is willfully regressing toward conservatism.

From Salon

Instead, they typically reposition themselves as the immovable axis of correct values, and denounce their former ideological fellow travelers as heretics who profaned true conservatism.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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