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populist

[pop-yuh-list] / ˈpɒp jə lɪst /


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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

New polling has cemented populist leader Marine Le Pen’s front-runner status.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

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

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

Tucker, the Democratic candidate for agriculture commissioner, is a fifth-generation Texan who ties his campaign to Texas’ populist movement and focuses on issues that receive the most petition signatures on his website.

From Salon ● Aug. 3, 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

Interior Minister Nancy Faeser warned "extremists and populists are stirring up a climate of increasing violence".

From BBC ● May 4, 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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