revisionist
Example Sentences
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The author’s historical range is formidable, with details giving what might have been a dry revisionist argument the texture of lively narrative history.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 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
Taking his cue from Richard Hofstadter, an influential 20th-century American historian and Roosevelt revisionist, Mr. Brown hews largely to contrary opinions.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025
Such revisionist history is not uncommon for U.S. presidents.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2025
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
