reactionary
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While this may all sound a bit reactionary or like shooting fish in a barrel, Mungiu wisely complicates matters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
“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
Instead of continuing to craft lazy and reactionary half-measures, policymakers must step up and deliver the protections the public wants and needs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
There is no doubt that your grandfather’s reactionary class standing had a bad influence on your father’s thoughts, and he naturally passed them on to you.
From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang
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
In moving his antihero between Vietnam and 1970s California, home of self-obsessed good vibrations, conflicted refugees and rabid anti-communist reactionaries, Nguyen reveals a series of rich dichotomies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2025
These young edgy reactionaries, she wrote, are associated with the buzzy but mostly nominal downtown Manhattan “Dimes Square” scene.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2022
These held aloof from the propaganda and the struggle for popular liberties, took little part in the elections or in parliament, and joined neither the army of the constitutionalists nor that of the reactionaries.
From Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha by Samuel Graham Wilson
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