revisionist

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While I don’t suspect “The Bride!” will be met with this same revisionist praise later in its life, there is something remarkable about the dual “aggravation” of expectations that Gyllenhaal and Shelley’s works share.

From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026

The memorials warned that fake content was also being created "specifically to dilute historical facts, shift victim and perpetrator roles, or spread revisionist narratives".

From Barron's • Jan. 27, 2026

The result is a monumental revisionist work that will alter views on slavery inside and outside the Islamic world.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

In the meantime, this aggressively revisionist supermarket, as indicated in Butler’s novel, has become part pharmacy, part a site of repentance for past consumption.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2024

This was revisionist history, of course; the representations by the three scientists during their White House meeting the previous June were what had prompted Eisenhower to question publicly the wisdom of a test ban.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik