centrist
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- noun
- /ˈsɛntrɪst/
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centrista
- Because the Dems have gone so far left, the centrists had no place else to go.
- centrists and conservatives
Bernie was crushed by the centrists, pushed out.
- Bernie was crushed by the centrists, pushed out.
- It turned out just because Barack Obama, who is a stone centrist by the way, was black.
- I don't, I I actually got accused once of being an ultra centrist.
- But think of myself as a centrist, not as a particularly partisan political actor.
- I think he is like the one guy that I truly believe is a real centrist.
- But like right now, there are times I see the political landscape where I have more in common with the populist leftists than I do the centrists in my own party.
- Pretending to be a centrist, that is the lamest role play.
- Look, Rishi Sunak, he's young, he's a centrist young whether they keep him in or not.
- And they're like, well, these centrist like ourselves are freaking useless.
Examples
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And we have examples where significant candidates on the left or the right have beat out a centrist candidate.
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There is no reason, moreover, to think that the Court's centrists would disagree.
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Of course, maybe not, but a centrist should be ready to accept that possibility.
Blog text (7) -
And they say these people, their ideas and and political positions are centrist because they are consistent with most Americans.
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But think of myself as a centrist, not as a particularly partisan political actor.
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In the past, both parties had ranks of centrists who would cross and vote with the other side.
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But right now, the Democratic Party is uniting leftist, centrist Democratic mainstays.
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Unless Congress reaps some more centrists in the next election, we're bound for more gridlock and inaction.
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France's politics had settled around a grand compromise between the royalist ultra conservatives, the liberal centrists, and the radical Republicans.
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Our governor is a centrist, and he wants very badly to create good policy for Colorado.
Synonyms
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4.6
A person with political views that are not extreme
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 means 'a person who'. So a centrist as a noun is a person with 'middle' or moderate political views who avoids extremes on either side.