centrist
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- adjective
- /ˈsɛntrɪst/
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centrista
- Many voters appreciated the candidate's centrist approach, as it appealed to both sides of the political spectrum.
- centrist views
- a centrist party
- a centrist candidate
You know, I, I feel like I have a centrist view on it.
- You know, I, I feel like I have a centrist view on it.
- He spoke MAGA in a way that that that centrist voters could appreciate.
- So their incentive is not to print content or, or, or produce content that's kind of centrist or down the line either.
- And I'm so sick of a few people in the Democratic Party trotting out like there are centrist saviors.
- And hey, when I was when I was a young guy, I didn't ever think I'd be looking for a consensus centrist country.
- Call yourself what you are, Twitter and Facebook, which is we are centrist globalist imperialists.
Examples
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As hostile political encounters lead increasingly to mutually damaging outcomes, moderate, centrist politics may become an acceptable alternative.
Academic text (1995) -
The reforms on the table are so centrist it's nauseating to someone like me.
Blog text (10) -
You know, I, I feel like I have a centrist view on it.
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Has the world gone so far left that actually, you know, just being a centrist feels far right?
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And he was always a centrist Democrat.
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Maybe it's time for a third party, a centrist party that's not extremely conservative or liberal.
Blog text (9) -
Chapman suggests that the system would guarantee a centrist government with moderate policies, and indeed it would.
Academic text (1990) -
Throughout this period, the Social Democratic Party managed to cobble together minority governments with smaller centrist parties.
Academic text (1996) -
Using this criterion, Canada is quite centrist when viewed in the context of the industrialized countries.
Academic text (2006) -
And although much of the international community dismissed Netanyahu's unprecedented ten-month settlement freeze as insufficient, centrist Israelis applauded it.
Academic text (2012)
Synonyms
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A person with political views that are not extreme
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4.7
Something that is not extreme in politics or personal tastes
A person who has political views in the middle and avoids extremes
A person who has moderate political views between left and right
Antonyms
How Moderate
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Centrist comes from the common word center, which means 'middle', plus the ending -ist that shows a position. So a centrist adjective describes a 'middle' or moderate political view between the left and the right.