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populist

[pop-yuh-list] / ˈpɒp jə lɪst /


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Mr. Lucas’s brand of populist revolt—which mixes high and low art in an effort to elevate the latter to the realm of the former—isn’t new.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Pritzker for a “pugilistic,” populist mantle attractive to voters seeking a Democrat who appears both combative and genuine.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

The court rejected requests for Mladic's release on health grounds, a move the populist leader labelled "unprecedented and unjustifiable behaviour".

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

"Shortsighted or populist reactions to underlying business challenges are not the answer," Ashley said in the letter.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

For a good part of the eighteenth and all of the nineteenth century, the populist, light, tuneful Italian style of opera was what most people went to an opera house for.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

Macron, who attended the country’s top schools, “has become the embodiment of everything populists hate,” said Olivier Costa, a research professor at the Paris-based Sciences Po university and France’s National Center for Scientific Research.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026

These shamanistic masks have long been a mainstay of populists.

From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2025

Still, opera populists are trying and appear to be making progress.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2024

In the first round, Torres’ competition came mostly from other conservative populists.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 12, 2023

How glib would have been the tongues of their orators in denouncing all who advocated the remonetization of gold as cranks, socialists, populists, anarchists, ne’er-do-wells, and Adullamites, kickers, visionaries, and frauds!

From If Not Silver, What? by John W. Bookwalter




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