compromiser

noun

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as in accommodationist

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  1. accommodationist
  2. progressive
  3. reformer
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Definition of accommodationist
Noun
  • The philosophical question is whether progressives and conservatives should welcome affirmative action for kids who overcame disadvantages in their youth—especially what’s often the most difficult disadvantage of all: growing up in a single-parent family.
    Michael J. Petrilli, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
  • At the same time, many American progressives and others have been demanding the U.S. suspend arm shipments to Israel altogether because of the death toll among Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
    Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
Definition of progressive
Noun
  • In contrast, people can also do Pilates on a specialized machine called a reformer.
    Amber Sayer, Health, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Ford was brought in as a reformer to clean up the city’s police force after the discovery that cops were exchanging racist, sexist and homophobic texts.
    East Bay Times editorial, The Mercury News, 24 Oct. 2024
Definition of reformer
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