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left wing



left-wing
ADJECTIVE
liberal or radical
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NOUN
person or group favoring usually radical change
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Arsenal's summer was dominated by talk of their search for an elite forward, with the left wing one of the positions identified.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Winger Christos Tzolis, who has shone at times this season following his summer arrival, suffered a hamstring issue with Greece and, with Eberechi Eze out of form, Arteta used Noni Madueke on the left wing.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

Delta Air Lines Flight 7 was taxiing for departure when its left wing clipped Air Canada Flight 785’s horizontal stabilizer at around 10:30 a.m.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Left-back Andy Robertson is instead positioned on the left wing with winger Omar Marmoush inverting into an attacking midfield position.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

I started on the left wing, and I figured out that I could get these thin lines by angling the pencil tip.

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt

The other Arab party, the Joint List, is an alliance of left-wing, communist, and secular Palestinian-nationalist movements.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

His father Ahmad said that though he voted for an Arab party, many in town including his other son chose The Democrats, a left-wing party led by Jewish Israeli Yair Golan.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

Lula is a longtime labor activist and co-founder of the left-wing Workers’ Party, who ran losing campaigns for president three times before being elected in 2002 and reelected in 2006.

From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2026

The incumbent, veteran left-wing leader Luíz Inácio Lula da Silva, will be challenged by 11 candidates, the most prominent of whom is right-winger Flávio Bolsonaro.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

In the Soviet Union in the 1930s, left-wing scientists and intellectuals proposed that nothing about heredity was inherent at all.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee


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