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reactionary

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




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Lucky to avoid red card for his reactionary shove on Rodrigo Bentancur?

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 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

He says his vision comes with “a decidedly new twist” because it is not reactionary and really will deliver abundance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

As reactionary as that sounds, I was totally rapt.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 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

There was a minority within the movement, he admits, who were not real conservatives, but reactionaries.

From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2025

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

These young edgy reactionaries, she wrote, are associated with the buzzy but mostly nominal downtown Manhattan “Dimes Square” scene.

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2022

But its association with Russia had not the results hoped for by the French reactionaries.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 8 "France" to "Francis Joseph I." by Various


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