populist

Example Sentences

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That’s Coogler’s challenge too, and this is his moment to encourage the industry to get back to making ambitious populist hits.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026

It was a major cultural change for someone who had come up on the British populist right, as the restaurant attracted patrons interested in blockchain and not just in Brexit.

From Slate • Mar. 10, 2026

Mojtaba's name first entered the public spotlight during the 2005 presidential election, which resulted in the victory of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a populist hardliner.

From BBC • Mar. 8, 2026

But the resounding victory Tuesday of state Rep. James Talarico, a Bible-quoting economic populist, has changed the equation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 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