neoconservative
noun
neo·con·ser·va·tive
ˌnē-ō-kən-ˈsər-və-tiv 
1
: a former liberal espousing political conservatism
2
: a conservative who advocates the assertive promotion of democracy and U.S. national interest in international affairs including through military means
neoconservative
adjective
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In Iraq, many in the Bush administration saw the most promising equivalent as Ahmed Chalabi, an exiled opponent of Saddam who was close with several neoconservatives.
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Garrett M. Graff, Foreign Affairs, 5 May 2023
By 2014, the Munich Conference was where U.S. neoconservatives went to pummel their European counterparts for acting independently.
—Thomas Meaney, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
Then again, without Carter as the nominee, the neoconservatives who broke away from the Democrats might have stayed in the fold.
—Ben Jacobs, The New Republic, 21 Sep. 2023
After years as intellectual insurgents within the Republican Party, the neoconservatives were suddenly elevated to an influential policy board in 1998.
—Max Fisher, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2023
With war no longer entirely a hypothetical, neoconservatives portrayed Iraq as a proving ground for their larger mission.
—Max Fisher, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2023
Younger rightists dodge the war-taint by blaming everything on a ghoulish cabal of neoconservatives whose Wilsonian phantasmagoria once held their party in thrall.
—David Harsanyi, National Review, 16 Mar. 2023
For decades, Republicans aligned roughly around the heavy-handed foreign policy principles of neoconservatives.
—Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 23 Feb. 2023
Yet he was not born to be a black neoconservative.
—Darryl Pinckney, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
Garrett M. Graff, Foreign Affairs, 5 May 2023
By 2014, the Munich Conference was where U.S. neoconservatives went to pummel their European counterparts for acting independently.
—Thomas Meaney, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
Then again, without Carter as the nominee, the neoconservatives who broke away from the Democrats might have stayed in the fold.
—Ben Jacobs, The New Republic, 21 Sep. 2023
After years as intellectual insurgents within the Republican Party, the neoconservatives were suddenly elevated to an influential policy board in 1998.
—Max Fisher, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2023
With war no longer entirely a hypothetical, neoconservatives portrayed Iraq as a proving ground for their larger mission.
—Max Fisher, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2023
Younger rightists dodge the war-taint by blaming everything on a ghoulish cabal of neoconservatives whose Wilsonian phantasmagoria once held their party in thrall.
—David Harsanyi, National Review, 16 Mar. 2023
For decades, Republicans aligned roughly around the heavy-handed foreign policy principles of neoconservatives.
—Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 23 Feb. 2023
Yet he was not born to be a black neoconservative.
—Darryl Pinckney, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
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