liberal
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As health minister in 2020, Spahn had rejected calls by the liberal FDP for the ban to be relaxed.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Like the book’s Faye, Knoll went to a private liberal arts college.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
Referring to David Pecker, the then-publisher of the National Enquirer, Bezos said: “He probably hates me. He probably thinks I’m a left coast liberal, and I’m not,” according to a recording reviewed by the Journal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
The Society of Saint Pius X comprises fundamentalist Catholics who strongly oppose the liberal reforms imposed by the Vatican II Council in the 1960s.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
It underpinned the more difficult “quadrivium”—arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy— that students went on to learn; all seven subjects taken in toto being the so-called liberal arts.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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Five justices — Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett, along with the three liberals — upheld the constitutionality of the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause.
From Salon ● Jul. 1, 2026
Justice Elena Kagan, who was joined by the two other liberals on the court and three conservatives, wrote the majority opinion.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
This doesn’t mean conservatives and liberals will agree in practice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
In 1973, Tom Bradley became L.A.’s. first Black mayor by assembling Black, Jewish, white and Latino liberals into a coalition that ended decades of conservative white rule at City Hall.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2026
Then he gazed at the people gathered around him: liberals and conservatives, blacks and whites, men and women, middle-class and poor.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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