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counterrevolution

noun as in reaction

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Elsewhere on this week’s Fever Dreams episode, writer and “Know Your Enemy” podcast co-host Sam Adler-Bell talks about his article in The New Republic on the “New Right” and upstart young conservative intellectuals talking about “counterrevolution.”

As the breadth of the counterrevolution became clear, my unease turned to despair.

But if Shafiq wins—whether fairly or unfairly—it will complete the circle of counterrevolution.

Undoubtedly a French statesman could not but wish for a counterrevolution in England.

The votes of the Parliament had already forced on Lewis the conviction that there was no chance of a counterrevolution.

England and Austria insisted that there should be neither vengeance nor counterrevolution.

Extrapolating Russian history, it would be reasonable to expect a backlash in the form of a counterrevolution.

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On this page you'll find 16 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to counterrevolution, such as: backlash, backsliding, regression, relapse, retreat, and retrenchment.

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

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