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Noun
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The American president is a traitor to the democratic world.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
24 Apr. 2025 -
If that isn’t pressure enough, the women are faced with a mysterious traitor who emerges, years later, as the three friends are torn apart.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
25 Mar. 2025
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During Saturday’s concert, Young also reunited with longtime collaborator Stephen Stills.—
Jessica Lynch,
Billboard,
28 Apr. 2025
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Waters’ career in cinema was largely made with the support of this community, with one of his frequent collaborators being the famous drag queen Divine.—
Harrison Richlin,
IndieWire,
27 Apr. 2025
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Along the way, Rhodes was the driving force behind WWE’s sellout streak, its booming merchandise sales and its general uptick in quality.—
Blake Oestriecher,
Forbes.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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Over two days last week, the sellout eliminated more than $6 trillion in market value in the U.S. alone.—
Mike Lillis,
The Hill,
7 Apr. 2025
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Its players are turncoats whose legacies are forever stained.—
Greg Cote,
Miami Herald,
6 Apr. 2025
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Many countries have a great turncoat in their history.—
Matthew J. Friedman,
CNN Money,
1 Apr. 2025
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But the president's new FTC chair, Andrew Ferguson, is an outspoken Big Tech critic on X and is signaling the panel won't be stacked with pro-industry quislings.—
Marc Caputo,
Axios,
10 Feb. 2025
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Erdogan, meanwhile, lambasted Kilicdaroglu as a quisling who is in cahoots with the West and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, a Kurdish separatist group that both Ankara and Washington consider a terrorist entity.—
Nabih Bulos,
Los Angeles Times,
28 May 2023
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The primary conspirators behind the Oklahoma City bombing were Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols.—
Alex Gurley,
People.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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The season 1 finale finally revealed the identity of the pharmaceutical conspirator, and also introduced a key new character and a surprise pregnancy.—
Wesley Stenzel,
EW.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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Of course, even without Judas getting his name in the title, that character is arguably the lead, if there is one, in the show, which put composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Tim Rice on the musical theater map for good.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
5 May 2025
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Adam Lambert will join Cynthia Erivo in Jesus Christ Superstar this summer for three nights Aug 1-3 at the Hollywood Bowl, with Lambert playing Judas to Erivo’s Jesus.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
5 May 2025
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Bob Michel, the longtime accommodationist who treated Democratic House majorities as an unalterable fact of life, faded away, and the pugilistic Newt Gingrich ascended.—
Ed Burmila,
The New Republic,
15 June 2022
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Many African American activists had broken with King, advocating Black Power rather than racial reconciliation, abandoning nonviolence, and denouncing King as an accommodationist.—
Drew Gilpin Faust,
The Atlantic,
18 July 2019
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“Subverter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subverter. Accessed 9 May. 2025.
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