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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

We need a coordinated maritime security framework that goes beyond reactionary naval escorts to include long-term diplomatic and economic safeguards.

From Barron's ● May 22, 2026

Parnell died of pneumonia the next year, at 45, leaving behind the legend of a great man brought low by reactionary forces.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 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

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 a sense, these are true reactionaries, whereas totalitarianism tends to have a revolutionary element.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 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

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

From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2023

At Antioch subsequently he overcame renewed opposition by public exposure of the inconsistency of Peter, who had been won over by the reactionaries.

From The Making of the New Testament by Benjamin Wisner Bacon