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Recent Examples of demagogic
Dave acts onstage, in service of artistic truth; Giles, on the stage of public life, peddles demagogic fictions.
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Giles Harvey, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
When triggered, it short circuits the candidate’s strategic thinking and elicits demagogic and dehumanizing arguments.
—Karrin Vasby Anderson, The Conversation, 12 Sep. 2024
The feature-film debut of the Wachowski siblings, Bound proves that gender manipulation is an old demagogic strategy.
—Armond White, National Review, 31 July 2024
These were the kind of comments that Republicans of the past might have seen at Democratic conventions and viewed as demagogic.
—Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 18 July 2024
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Giles Harvey, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
When triggered, it short circuits the candidate’s strategic thinking and elicits demagogic and dehumanizing arguments.
—Karrin Vasby Anderson, The Conversation, 12 Sep. 2024
The feature-film debut of the Wachowski siblings, Bound proves that gender manipulation is an old demagogic strategy.
—Armond White, National Review, 31 July 2024
These were the kind of comments that Republicans of the past might have seen at Democratic conventions and viewed as demagogic.
—Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 18 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for demagogic
Adjective
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Enrique Tarrio, who was facing 22 years in prison after being convicted of seditious conspiracy in connection with Jan. 6, was among the hundreds of rioters who were granted pardons by Trump.—
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 May 2025
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Since his release from custody, Mr. Tarrio has been involved in a number of ventures, including a podcast and a crypto coin with some of the other members of the Proud Boys, a far-right extremist group, who were convicted with him of seditious conspiracy at a trial two years ago.—
Alan Feuer,
New York Times,
4 May 2025
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The pine trees are towering and the fairways are twisting and the bunkers are deep and treacherous.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
15 May 2025
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Maybe the seemingly long haul on I-95 made treacherous by traffic congestion creates the Miami-Dade County and Broward County division among its residents.—
Michelle F. Solomon,
Miami Herald,
13 May 2025
Adjective
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Smith made out their former collaborators to be ungrateful and traitorous, and the kids weren't given the space to question her command.—
Zoey Lyttle,
People.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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Foreign military interventions can change victims from being viewed as a nuisance into being seen as powerful and traitorous enemies, potentially capable of exacting revenge, seizing power, or breaking away from the state.—
Benjamin A. Valentino,
Foreign Affairs,
17 Oct. 2011
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By 1917 in Russia, housewives were marching in city streets to protest a lack of food, peasants were seizing land, and many Russians saw the czarist government as irrelevant, even treasonous.—
Margaret MacMillan,
The Atlantic,
30 Apr. 2025
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The rift deepened after Trump left office, with the then-former president describing his former Joint Chiefs chairman as treasonous for calling a senior Chinese military official to defuse fears of a potential U.S. attack.—
Davis Winkie,
USA TODAY,
20 Jan. 2025
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“Demagogic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/demagogic. Accessed 19 May. 2025.
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