revisionist

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“The longer uncertainty remains around the outcome of the war, the louder the voices of the revisionists will grow,” Stanovaya wrote in an analysis.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 9, 2023

The Times is attempting to do that, beginning with two conversations with scholars once dubbed the “New Historians” — a loose group of Israeli revisionists who, in the 1980s, reexamined their country’s heroic origin story.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 27, 2023

There are uninspired retreads, and there are brilliant revisionists.

From Washington Post • Jan. 8, 2022

In subtle, but determined ways, Emperor Akihito has repeatedly shown his disdain for the revisionists.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2019

We were revisionists; what we revised was ourselves.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood