as in nationalistic
having or showing love and support for one's country
hanging a flag outside one's home is a patriotic gesture
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Outgoing President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden both went patriotic in Ralph Lauren, the first fashion designer to be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom earlier this month.
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Ingrid Schmidt, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Jan. 2025
At Jimmy Carter’s state funeral service earlier this month, Clinton also wore a brooch, but one of a patriotic bald eagle with the U.S flag.
—Ada Tseng, WWD, 20 Jan. 2025
Near the Sheba hospital, a group of Israelis played music and sang patriotic songs on Sunday night.
—Nadeen Ebrahim and Mike Schwartz, CNN, 19 Jan. 2025
Music — sacred, patriotic and popular — will feature prominently throughout the day for the evangelical president who campaigned with the Allman Brothers Band, befriended Willie Nelson and quoted Bob Dylan in his 1977 inaugural address.
—Bill Barrow, The Denver Post, 9 Jan. 2025
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Ingrid Schmidt, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Jan. 2025
At Jimmy Carter’s state funeral service earlier this month, Clinton also wore a brooch, but one of a patriotic bald eagle with the U.S flag.
—Ada Tseng, WWD, 20 Jan. 2025
Near the Sheba hospital, a group of Israelis played music and sang patriotic songs on Sunday night.
—Nadeen Ebrahim and Mike Schwartz, CNN, 19 Jan. 2025
Music — sacred, patriotic and popular — will feature prominently throughout the day for the evangelical president who campaigned with the Allman Brothers Band, befriended Willie Nelson and quoted Bob Dylan in his 1977 inaugural address.
—Bill Barrow, The Denver Post, 9 Jan. 2025
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“Patriotic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/patriotic. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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