republican

Example Sentences

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And his desire for secular immortality didn’t mean he was pretending to have lofty republican sensibilities.

From Slate • Feb. 16, 2026

Traditionally, they vote once in every parliament on a republican motion to abolish the monarchy and the motion came up by coincidence on Tuesday.

From BBC • Feb. 3, 2026

Once the zeal of republican liberty cooled, 19th-century universities provided homes to such scientists of sacrifice as ethnographers, philologists, sociologists, historians and anthropologists.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 25, 2026

She said he was a committed Irish republican who had "dedicated his entire life to the people of Newry and Armagh".

From BBC • Jan. 17, 2026

It is difficult for us to fathom fully the threat that Burr represented to Hamilton because we know that the American experiment with republican government was destined to succeed.

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