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communists

NOUN

card-carrying communist

Synonyms

STRONG

Bolshevik Bolshevist Commie Maoist Marxist Stalinist Trotskyite apparatchik comrade pinko red socialist sympathizer

WEAK

C.P. member Castroite Leninist Party member Viet Cong com-symp fellow traveler member of the Communist Party

Antonyms

WEAK

capitalist conservative

Example Sentences

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Thousands of families are still hoping to reclaim ancestral land that was taken by the communists after World War II, with some claiming ownership over land allocated to the project.

From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026

COINTELPRO, or the Counter Intelligence Program, targeted all the usual suspects — communists, socialists, civil rights organizations and yes, the left, with a particular focus on protest organizers.

From Salon • Mar. 12, 2026

Deftly unraveling the tangled politics of the moment, Mr. Wallace vividly shows La Guardia juggling factions of fusionist Republicans, communists, interventionists, isolationists, Tammany pols and a rat’s nest of the city’s fierce ethnic rivalries.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

Lai was born in Guangzhou, a city in southern China, to a wealthy family that lost everything when the communists took power in 1949.

From BBC • Aug. 13, 2025

In fact, Babi thought that the one thing the communists had done right—or at least intended to—ironically, was in the field of education, the vocation from which they had fired him.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini