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Recent Examples of pinko
My general experience with campaigns is that winning candidates are almost always those who attack their opponents remorselessly and relentlessly — those who convince the voters that the other guy is a racist, a pinko, a warmonger, a coward, a crook, a greedy capitalist, whatever.
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Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 18 Jan. 2024
Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 18 Jan. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pinko
Noun
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Max Fried will give them a great shot at that, as the lefty is 6-0 with a 1.29 ERA this season.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
24 May 2025
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Schwarber has produced 17 home runs this season for the Phillies, and nine of them have came against lefties.—
Drew VonScio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 May 2025
Noun
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Its flowers come in a variety of bright shades including hot pink, rose red, white, yellow, and salmon.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
16 May 2025
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Kate owns the dress in pale pink, Beatrice's is blue and Sophie - the daughter-in-law of Queen Elizabeth’s cousin Prince Michael of Kent — wore it in magenta.—
Meredith Kile,
People.com,
16 May 2025
Noun
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One was a novelist, another a proud fascist, another a communist, and another was inexplicably in love with Adolf Hitler, to name a few.—
Ben Rosenstock,
Vulture,
19 May 2025
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Taiwan's government, officially the Republic of China, fled to the island after losing the Chinese civil war to Mao's communists in 1949.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 May 2025
Noun
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At other times, he’s called to action as a respected adventurer to investigate missing persons and MacGuffins, which generally leads to a series of globe-spanning scraps with members Axis Powers (sometimes cultists and commies too).—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
10 Dec. 2024
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The typical commie solution: Tax the rich, tax the corporations, make everything for the people free.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
4 Feb. 2024
Noun
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That was demonstrated on the night before Newsom’s announcement when Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — two East Coast democratic socialists — attracted nearly 30,000 people at an anti-Trump rally in a Republican congressional district near Sacramento.—
George Skelton,
Mercury News,
25 Apr. 2025
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Many in the audience also came to hear Ocasio-Cortez, 35, a sharp, politically savvy Democratic socialist once at the fringes of the Democratic Party who is now broadening her national appeal.—
Laura J. Nelson,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Apr. 2025
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“Pinko.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pinko. Accessed 1 Jun. 2025.
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