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republican

[ri-puhb-li-kuhn] / rɪˈpʌb lɪ kən /


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"I restate the Eiffel Tower's commitment to republican values and to the equality of men and women."

From Barron's Sep. 7, 2026

The vehicle was stopped during an operation targeting dissident republican activities on Wednesday but further details are just emerging.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

"I think it evidences the fact that there is an ongoing threat in respect of dissident republican activity," he said.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

And as Wood explains in his great book, “The Radicalism of the American Revolution,” these ideas would spread and unleash the republican spirit of free men and women who built America.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

Since there had never been a republican chief executive, there was no readily available vocabulary to characterize such a creature, except the verbal traditions that had built up around European courts and kings.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

The prosecution suggested that the disorder which broke out had been deliberately orchestrated by dissident republicans to coincide with the presence of MTV.

From BBC Jul. 3, 2026

That leaves many Irish republicans in an unexpected position.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 13, 2026

Militant Irish republicans had been paying close attention to Carson’s tactics — which anticipated Mao Zedong’s maxim about the source of political power — and would eagerly emulate his example in the years ahead.

From Salon Oct. 19, 2024

He did not leave Northern Ireland and go into hiding in England until a year later, when a recording surfaced from 1993 of him speaking secretly to journalists about senior republicans.

From BBC Mar. 7, 2024

Harlequin does not more scrupulously 393 adhere to his parti-coloured suit, than do the republicans of Paris to their burlesque costume.

From Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) by Frances Milton Trollope




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