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as in collaborationist
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as in compromiser
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Recent Examples of accommodationist
Bob Michel, the longtime accommodationist who treated Democratic House majorities as an unalterable fact of life, faded away, and the pugilistic Newt Gingrich ascended.
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Ed Burmila, The New Republic, 15 June 2022
Many African American activists had broken with King, advocating Black Power rather than racial reconciliation, abandoning nonviolence, and denouncing King as an accommodationist.
—Drew Gilpin Faust, The Atlantic, 18 July 2019
Ava DuVernay is Hollywood’s current reigning accommodationist.
—Armond White, National Review, 10 July 2019
To Douthat Francis is an accommodationist, and decline has reached the apex of the church.
—Paul Elie, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2018
Ed Burmila, The New Republic, 15 June 2022
Many African American activists had broken with King, advocating Black Power rather than racial reconciliation, abandoning nonviolence, and denouncing King as an accommodationist.
—Drew Gilpin Faust, The Atlantic, 18 July 2019
Ava DuVernay is Hollywood’s current reigning accommodationist.
—Armond White, National Review, 10 July 2019
To Douthat Francis is an accommodationist, and decline has reached the apex of the church.
—Paul Elie, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for accommodationist
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The philosophical question is whether progressives and conservatives should welcome affirmative action for kids who overcame disadvantages in their youth—especially what’s often the most difficult disadvantage of all: growing up in a single-parent family.Michael J. Petrilli, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
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At the same time, many American progressives and others have been demanding the U.S. suspend arm shipments to Israel altogether because of the death toll among Palestinian civilians in Gaza.Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
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The superhit started as a haunting number from his frequent Miracles collaborator and guitarist Marv Tarplin.Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2024
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My least favorite type of collaborator in any situation, or even a romantic relationship, is someone who has some need in themselves that is un-figured out.Jem Aswad, Variety, 11 Dec. 2024
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Three ‘traitors’ are given the opportunity to ‘murder’ contestants, while remaining ‘faithfuls’ have to smoke them out, and the group compete in daily challenges to keep the prize fund steady.Max Goldbart, Deadline, 26 Nov. 2024
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Like Trump, Carlson appeals to his base by positioning himself as a class traitor—not a man of the people, exactly, but an apostate from the cosmopolitan élite.Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024
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The sellout crowd — the first on Monday night in Denver since 2018 — didn’t know whether to roar or exhale.Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 2 Dec. 2024
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Few in the sellout crowd left their seats until well after the celebration — largely because the win was not certain to happen coming into a game that offered one of the league’s most intriguing playoff matchups in years.Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2024
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Erdogan, meanwhile, lambasted Kilicdaroglu as a quisling who is in cahoots with the West and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, a Kurdish separatist group that both Ankara and Washington consider a terrorist entity.Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2023
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And Kilicdaroglu was an easy mark for Erdogan, who has belittled him for years and cast him during the campaign as both a terrorist and a quisling for Western interests — accusations that stuck in the minds of some voters.Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 27 May 2023
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Others to Watch: Marc Andreessen: A vc worth $1.9 billion, Andreessen made waves as an ex-Democrat donating to pro-Trump groups—among the first key Silicon Valley turncoats—and went to Mar-A-Lago on election night.Joe Walsh, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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Some of you certainly want Cowboy-loving turncoat Isaac shipped off to Axios Dallas, pronto.Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 27 Nov. 2024
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“Accommodationist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/accommodationist. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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