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republican

[ri-puhb-li-kuhn] / rɪˈpʌb lɪ kən /


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The meeting with the leader of Plaid Cymru - a pro-independence party rooted in a strong republican tradition - marked a significant and symbolic moment.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

The difficulty is finding a way to minimize their capacity to control territory without trampling republican values.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 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

But even that landmark precedent, so crucial in establishing the republican principle of rotation in office, paled in comparison to an even more elemental political and psychological realization.

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

Maskey described his gesture as a "major step for republicans and nationalists on this island".

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2024

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

His party had been reorganized and the republicans had just obtained a majority in the new Congress, but his principles were far from being secure.

From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Gilbert Chinard


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