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reactionary

[ree-ak-shuh-ner-ee] / riˈæk ʃəˌnɛr i /




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“Because we focus so much on the kind of retroactive or reactionary human caseload, we miss the opportunity to control the vector and to understand more about the vector,” LaDeau said.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

Pickford also won the competition's save-of-the-season award for a second time last season following a remarkable reactionary stop, external from Sandro Tonali's volley to secure Everton's 3-2 win at St James' Park in February.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

Policymakers also must avoid reactionary laws that do more harm than good.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

“This is not just some sort of reactionary NIMBY-ism or pearl clutching.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2026

You have to be actionary, rather than reactionary.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

These businesses were picked almost certainly because Shirley and his colleagues have tapped into the long-standing tendency of paranoid reactionaries to make day cares the subject of conspiracy theories.

From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2026

Deeply discount the moaning of Hollywood reactionaries and certain podcasters trying to edge themselves into the spotlight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 9, 2025

He shares with the architectural reactionaries the impulse toward rawer, less manufactured surroundings.

From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2023

We meet the Bollywood fan, the intense scientific genius, the band of cultural reactionaries, the Indian folklore cosplayers and so on.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2022

But he was by far the most original of the reactionaries who preceded the Romantic Revival, and he caught far more of the Elizabethan air in his lyric verse than any one else before Coleridge.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various




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