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populist

[pop-yuh-list] / ˈpɒp jə lɪst /


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Hobson added that her focus has been on hammering home the museum’s populist themes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2024

After key regional elections on Sunday in Germany conservatives and right-wing populists are celebrating.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2023

Yes," said Lyman, "but our friends, the populists, have enacted rather peculiar divorce laws.

From Old Ebenezer by Opie Percival Read




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