populist
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Shaw has framed her campaign as a populist effort against a failed and self-interested status quo establishment.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026
"He has shaped the image of the first populist president, the first acclaimed strongman of the 21st Century."
From BBC • May 30, 2026
Yet when the 1896 presidential election pitted the soft-money populist, William Jennings Bryan, against William McKinley, the hard-money Republican, McKinley won the electoral majority, 271 to 176, and the popular vote, 51% to 46.7%, besides.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
As Capp explains, "This was a sort of populist political gesture, essentially inviting the moral support of the crowd."
From Science Daily • May 7, 2026
Indeed, it is possible to date the chasm that was to develop between the populist mainstream and the classical avant-garde in music to this place and time.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Vocabulary lists containing populist
We the People: Popul
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