populist
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The streamer makes it easy to host a film festival at home, regularly curating new lineups with titles both obscure and populist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Serbia's long-time populist President Aleksandar Vucic resigned Sunday to run for prime minister in October snap elections after nearly two years of student-led protests that had been pressing for just such a poll.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 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
"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
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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
Thus we see the growth of labour organisations, and the spread of populists and socialists, who demand new rights and a greater share in the products of labour.
From Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy by David Grayson
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