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Recent Examples of hawkish
The extraordinary pivot has upended decades of hawkish foreign policy toward Russia that provided a rare area of bipartisan consensus in an increasingly divided nation.
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Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 3 Mar. 2025
That more hawkish stance is now entrenched in Washington, but the shift toward confrontation and economic nationalism has gone too far.
—Myron Brilliant, TIME, 12 Mar. 2025
Almost all of them ran really hawkish messages on immigration that often blamed the Biden Administration.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
President Trump's explosive Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shocked hawkish Republican lawmakers and led one prominent GOP backer of Ukraine to suggest that Zelensky should resign.
—Andrew Solender, Axios, 28 Feb. 2025
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Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 3 Mar. 2025
That more hawkish stance is now entrenched in Washington, but the shift toward confrontation and economic nationalism has gone too far.
—Myron Brilliant, TIME, 12 Mar. 2025
Almost all of them ran really hawkish messages on immigration that often blamed the Biden Administration.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
President Trump's explosive Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shocked hawkish Republican lawmakers and led one prominent GOP backer of Ukraine to suggest that Zelensky should resign.
—Andrew Solender, Axios, 28 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hawkish
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The bottom line: Bipartisanship is the most obvious casualty of Schumer's new warlike posture toward the GOP.—
Hans Nichols,
Axios,
21 Mar. 2025
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Freyja, however, is a more warlike goddess, and even has a part in selecting warriors for her hall in the afterlife.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
2 Jan. 2025
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The trailer shows Powell jumping down elevator shafts, getting shot at, tossing grenades, and giving the finger to the floating cameras that record his progress for the show's bloodthirsty viewers.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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Elsewhere, gawp at Patty Chang greedily gobbling a melon standing in for her breast in her seminal 1998 video Melons (At a Loss) and the bloodthirsty mermaids swimming through Jen Liu’s 2023 video The Land at the Bottom of the Sea.—
Lisa Wong Macabasco,
Vogue,
31 Mar. 2025
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Irish mixed martial artist Conor McGregor wants to run in the November 2025 Irish presidential election, vowing to oppose his country's participation in an EU pact to share asylum-seekers around member countries.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
22 Mar. 2025
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On March 24, 2000, Aaliyah made her acting debut in the action film Romeo Must Die, starring opposite martial artist and actor Jet Li, who played Han.—
Angela Andaloro,
People.com,
21 Mar. 2025
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“Hawkish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hawkish. Accessed 12 Apr. 2025.
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