liberal
Example Sentences
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After decades of aspiring to remake the world along western liberal lines, the U.S. is coming to terms with limits on U.S. power, said John Lewis Gaddis, a professor of military history at Yale University.
"We are diverse, we are progressive, we are liberal, we are successful, but even the harshest critics of London would have to accept these figures are remarkable."
From BBC
In Sacramento, he pursued a string of criminal justice reforms and developed a record as one of the body’s most liberal members.
From Los Angeles Times
He makes liberal use of a biased Roman biography that likewise reveals its point of view in its title: “The Life of Marcus Antoninus, Philosopher.”
Nearly everyone Davies interviewed abroad presumed Trader Joe’s has liberal connotations—though she’s learned this doesn’t necessarily track in the U.S. itself.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
