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[dem-uh-krat] / ˈdɛm əˌkræt /


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“I’m a small-d democrat, and I think that people will vote with their feet and will embrace this museum as their own.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Critics call him extreme, though he recently told AFP he was a democrat who would "respect the constitution."

From Barron's ● Mar. 9, 2026

“That changed everything,” said David Brauer, a retired journalist who wrote for Minneapolis publications and who identifies as a center-left social democrat.

From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2025

Gibbon, no democrat, spent much of his time reading voraciously and carried some English biases and feuds into his writing, but he illuminated Augustus’ strategies in ways that America’s framers found sobering, cautionary and salutary.

From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2025

The combatants had the whole field, and between the combatants there seemed to be no room for choice by a minister of the Gospel, an enthusiastic friend of humanity, a democrat, and a transcendentalist.

From Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 by Octavius Brooks Frothingham

The outcry from Mexican democrats who cherish free speech has been extraordinary.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

Oregon Congresswoman Edith Green offered her take on a compromise: seating loyal democrats from both parties.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2024

Latin America’s democracies and democrats don’t get enough credit for weathering inequality, violence and economic stagnation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2024

"We democrats have to stop the finger-pointing, sit down together and find a position that lives up to that responsibility."

From Reuters ● Sep. 15, 2023

The Magna Carta, the Petition of Rights and the Bill of Rights, are documents which are held in veneration by democrats throughout the world.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela


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