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as in nationalistic
having or showing excessive favoritism towards one's own country
most of the articles on the website are nationalist propaganda and not objective by any means
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as in patriotic
having or showing love and support for one's country
nationalist fervor is often at its highest when a country is at war
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as in patriot
one who shows excessive favoritism towards his or her country
a staunch nationalist who favored any policy that would give the country more power in the international arena
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Recent Examples of nationalist
Angelica Villa, ARTnews.com, 21 Jan. 2025
Rhodes was working on a memoir of Obama’s Presidency and attempting to process Donald Trump’s first victory, while Lammy was confronting the nationalist instincts behind the Brexit vote and his own party’s leftward turn, under Jeremy Corbyn.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2024
Spaces like Gab, a white-supremacist-friendly social network run by a christian nationalist.
—David Gilbert, WIRED, 29 Nov. 2024
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Adjective
When it was first introduced in 2020, many US architects critiqued the move as regressive, viewing it as an attempt by the Trump administration to impose a uniform style on public buildings and to promote nationalist ideals.
—Angelica Villa, ARTnews.com, 21 Jan. 2025
Rhodes was working on a memoir of Obama’s Presidency and attempting to process Donald Trump’s first victory, while Lammy was confronting the nationalist instincts behind the Brexit vote and his own party’s leftward turn, under Jeremy Corbyn.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
Noun
Hafez al-Assad, a secular nationalist from the minority Alawite sect, ran Syria tyrannically from 1971 until his death, in 2000.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2024
Spaces like Gab, a white-supremacist-friendly social network run by a christian nationalist.
—David Gilbert, WIRED, 29 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nationalist
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The pursuits by the US and China are in part nationalistic and political.—
Jackie Wattles,
CNN,
14 Jan. 2025
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That nationalistic pride and the volume was just amazing.—
Jordan Bianchi,
The Athletic,
20 Aug. 2024
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The bureaucratic sideshows of life-size patriotic cut-outs propped up at the doors in office corridors stand as humanoid warnings.—
Armond White,
National Review,
22 Jan. 2025
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The ceremony marked a turning point in Hollywood’s pivot toward patriotic propaganda, in concert with the Department of War.—
Michael Schulman,
The New Yorker,
22 Jan. 2025
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The two men were heralded by Democrats as patriots for speaking out and derided by Trump as insubordinate.—
Aamer Madhani and Zeke Miller,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Jan. 2025
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There’s Roger Stone, often in suspenders and a bow tie, greeting fellow patriots.—
Sophie Haigney,
New York Times,
8 Jan. 2025
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“Nationalist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nationalist. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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