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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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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

The hosts, only four points down at that stage, had a clear two-on-one 30m out down the left wing.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

Barcola is right footed but prefers to play on the left wing and his likely arrival adds further doubt around Cody Gakpo's future at Anfield.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

Ocasio-Cortez, widely known by her initials AOC, burst onto the national political scene with an upset congressional victory in 2018 and rapidly became a leading voice of the Democratic Party's left wing.

From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026

At least Bags was wearing number sixteen and I got to keep the eleven, so everyone knew who the real left wing was.

From "Winger" by Andrew Smith

It’s a pathway in part inspired by New York City, where Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s outsider campaign was an inspiration for one of Europe’s most left-wing leaders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Abu Shehadeh leads the left-wing Palestinian Balad party and served in the Knesset, Israel's parliament, from 2019 to 2022.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

The 25-year-old is still hunting his first goal, but has slotted seamlessly into Barcelona's attack - in a left-wing spot often filled by on-loan England team-mate Marcus Rashford last term.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

At the edge of the crowd, I ran into Redi Muci, a member of the Albanian parliament for the left-wing party Lëvizja Bashkë, which translates as the “Together Movement,” and the party’s leader, Arlind Qori.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

Inspired by the Defiance Campaign, the COD was formed in late 1952 as a party for radical, left-wing, antigovernment whites.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela




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