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prohibitionist

[proh-uh-bish-uh-nist] / ˌproʊ əˈbɪʃ ə nɪst /




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And I'm not talking about just the decades of prohibitionist propaganda, either.

From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2023

The Senators owner, a prohibitionist through and through, made things harder on himself by subsisting without a source of revenue that other teams availed themselves of.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 11, 2023

Most of the shops are to be operated by people of color who had been incarcerated by prohibitionist laws.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2023

The disease notion, however, obscures those facts and narrows our view to counterproductive criminal responses, like harsh prohibitionist crackdowns.

From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2022

Georgia, in its early years, is to have the solitary honor of being an antislavery and prohibitionist colony.

From A History of American Christianity by Leonard Woolsey Bacon


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