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as in archconservative

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as in stuffed shirt

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Recent Examples of Bourbon
Noun
Canada is dropping its retaliatory tariffs on a set of American products that includes distilled spirits, according to media reports, marking a positive step forward for Kentucky's marquee bourbon industry, industry leaders said. — Killian Baarlaer, Louisville Courier Journal, 23 Aug. 2025 Expect cozy notes of bourbon vanilla, vanilla Madagascar, amyris, and cocoa shell, plus a superfine champagne sparkle that gives skin a radiant gleam. — Annie Blackman, Allure, 15 Aug. 2025
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Libations lean sweet, with drinks like the Sweet Corn, made with Baby Jane heirloom corn bourbon and corn syrup. — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026 For about a quarter century, Kentucky distillery Four Roses has been making bourbon using a combination of 10 different recipes, derived from the use of two mashbills and five unique yeast strains. — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 26 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for Bourbon
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Bourbon
  1. archconservative
  2. square
  3. traditionalist
  4. Colonel Blimp
  5. neocon
  6. neoconservative
  7. paleoconservative
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  • Those two issues, in particular, women’s empowerment and agrarian reform, went over like a lead balloon with the archconservatives of the country, especially religious.
    — Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 7 May 2026
  • Rachmaninoff has gone from being widely viewed as a musical archconservative to a protomodernist.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2023
Definition of archconservative
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  • Immediately after the news broke, people began gathering in the square in front of the royal palace in Oslo, bringing flowers and rallying in memory of their king.
    — Stefania Conrieri, Vanity Fair, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Major premieres, midnight screenings, restaurant openings, record store concerts, and more turned those few blocks into a sacred town square.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of square
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  • Conservatives in DellaPosta’s study were more likely to endorse spanking kids, for instance, which aligns with conservatism’s more traditionalist worldview.
    — Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Like other hard-right populist parties across the globe, Reform’s brand is very much tied up in traditionalist masculinity.
    — Sheena McKenzie, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of traditionalist
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  • In Zac’s report, Schoonmaker addressed Powell’s legendary filmmaking partnership with Emeric Pressburger, which spawned films such as The Red Shoes, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp and Black Narcissus.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 22 Aug. 2025
Definition of Colonel Blimp
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  • At the same time, the recent, deadly brutality of the agency and its partners has led, according to some polls, to strong support for such a policy; those espousing the slogan have included Bill Kristol, the neocon anti-Trump writer.
    — Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
  • This faith caused the neocons to recoil in from the Obama administration’s 2015 nuclear deal with Iran.
    — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 17 June 2026
Definition of neocon
Noun
  • Senor and Stephens are neoconservatives who hardly needed to be convinced that the members of progressive movements were not friends of the Jewish people.
    — Eyal Press, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Moreover, during the Iraq war, the Jewish community could effectively argue that framing the conflict as a Jewish neocon conspiracy was baseless, even as some neoconservatives influenced policy.
    — Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2026
Definition of neoconservative
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  • In his final act of excommunication, Buckley took a stand against the paleoconservative Pat Buchanan in 1991 for expressing opposition to the Persian Gulf war in terms that were both incendiary and undeniably anti-Semitic.
    — DAMON LINKER, New York Times, 8 May 2017
Definition of paleoconservative

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