populist

Example Sentences

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His public projects are populist but not polemical, utopian but not ideological.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

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

The tumult of 1848—the bloody populist revolutions that swept fiercely through France, Denmark, Germany, and Austria and overturned social, political, and religious orders—largely passed him by, like distant thunder.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee