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as in dove
a person who opposes war or warlike policies a committed pacifist, Gandhi succeeded in bringing about Indian independence using only nonviolence

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adjective

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Noun
As a young revolutionary during the 1896 fight against Spain and then as a soldier fighting against the Americans, Tomas had witnessed the effects of violence on people and become a pacifist. Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 Mar. 2024 The ideological conflict between Xavier and Magneto has often been distilled down to one similar to that of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, with Xavier being a pacifist and Magneto being aggressive and dictatorial. Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Mar. 2024
Adjective
During his term, Kishida has taken steps to double Japan’s defense spending, opening the door for military exports as the LDP seeks to revise the pacifist post-war constitution. Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune Asia, 27 Sep. 2024 The United States, however, has broken from France to advocate for a more pacifist response. Hannah Rae Armstrong, Foreign Affairs, 29 Aug. 2023 See all Example Sentences for pacifist 
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Noun
  • During the development process, the two dove into the Belstaff archive, looking at vintage pieces and studying functional motoring details on legwear and neck label branding.
    Tianwei Zhang, WWD, 1 Nov. 2024
  • But reserve cornerback Prophet Brown dove to break up the first-down pass.
    Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • However, in recent years the advent of AI and the push to develop additional sources of energy that can be carbon neutral thrust nuclear power back into the conversation.
    Paolo Confino, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Meanwhile Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum has maintained a neutral stance regarding the U.S. presidential candidates.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Trump returns to White House for symbolic meeting President-elect Donald Trump will meet with President Joe Biden today in a symbolic White House ceremony meant to signal the peaceful transfer of power.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
  • The system proved incapable of punishing Trump personally for his concerted, multifaceted refusal to accept his defeat and accept a peaceful transfer of power in 2020.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 7 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • The most formidable obstacle to a peaceable refuge was the double-decker section of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway that hugs the cliff below Brooklyn Heights.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 3 July 2024
  • In one study, 18 percent of patients flew, sang, danced, laughed, lectured or enacted other peaceable activities.
    Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2023
Adjective
  • Choose between two rich colors: pacific blue or yarrow gold.
    Sydney Gore, Architectural Digest, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Because roughly half the population there are Seventh-Day Adventists, and their interpretation of the Bible in regards to eating animals is a pacific one.
    Danny Palumbo / The Takeout, Quartz, 24 Mar. 2024

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“Pacifist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pacifist. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.

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