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- adjective Alternative spelling of
left-wing .
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Examples
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"If you want to use the term leftwing then go ahead, but what I'm doing is giving you a set of policies."
Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2009
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In her book La tentation obscurantiste, the French journalist Caroline Fourest presents an interesting hypothesis regarding the advance of what we call leftwing culturalism.
Archive 2009-01-11 William Harryman 2009
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Much of the Obama coverage has been negative, even from what you call leftwing, or MSM, media.
Nicole Belle embarrasses herself with a childishly written, dishonest smear. Ann Althouse 2008
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Much of the Obama coverage has been negative, even from what you call leftwing, or MSM, media.
Nicole Belle embarrasses herself with a childishly written, dishonest smear. Ann Althouse 2008
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The leftwing is reality-based on this issue for the most part, while the rightwing makes its own reality, driven by their greed and ideology.
Matthew Yglesias » Conservatives Don’t Care About the Deficit 2010
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Genocide always produces furious debate and the 1995 mass murder was contested not only by the Serbian killers anxious to escape justice, but by what most people call "leftwing" intellectuals – although "occidentalist" or "west-hating" are more precise terms.
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He is open to being defined as a leftwing, corrupt Chicago politician.
Archive 2008-02-01 Dave 2008
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He is open to being defined as a leftwing, corrupt Chicago politician....
"Republicans are out to crush Barack by painting him as a leftwinger..." Ann Althouse 2008
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And the leftwing is the knife with which Uncle Sam slits his wrists.
example 2006
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And the leftwing is the knife with which Uncle Sam slits his wrists.
Archive 2006-09-01 2006
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