feminists

noun

plural of feminist
as in egalitarians

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  1. egalitarians
  2. optimists
Noun
  • The geopolitics of World War II is not the global order of today; our egalitarians and authoritarians are different, too.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 4 May 2026
  • For most of the National Guard’s history in the South, political leaders used domestic military power to preserve the interests of racial authoritarians, not racial egalitarians.
    — Justin Randolph, The Conversation, 17 June 2025
Definition of egalitarians
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  • Polarized in terms of, like, sometimes people will distinguish AI doomers and AI optimists.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Now the rot is right there on the surface; the people smiling are less likely to be clueless optimists than the people who are happy about the rot, or profiting from it.
    — Peter C. Baker, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of optimists
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