traditionalist
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Her election has also led some traditionalist churches abroad to threaten to leave the Anglican Communion.
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2026
You ever go through a cranky traditionalist phase?
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2025
“The traditionalist in me feels like when Yale beats Harvard, that’s it,” Hill said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 22, 2025
As a stock-and-bond traditionalist who hasn’t yet used the firm’s services, I have questions.
From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2025
Newton’s culture, it could be argued, was inherently conservative and traditionalist; Newton could not have formulated the idea of a revolution even if he had wanted to.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
During the 1960s and 1970s, fraternities fell out of favor as members came to be seen as square, boring traditionalists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
The artificiality of all this, however, has pitted him against traditionalists who believe in the ocean's ability to self-heal.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
For years, soccer traditionalists worried a halftime show would unnecessarily “Americanize” the tournament.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
Tribalists and traditionalists have controlled the terms of the battle, one by simplifying, the other by denying, the way privilege has shaped our compound selves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
To many traditionalists, Plato included, the age of the written word necessarily meant the end of a craft of oral transmission that had long nourished the Greek mind.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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