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With revenues soaring, the late President Hugo Chávez, a left-wing populist, lavished cash on Venezuelan masses long excluded from the petroleum windfall.
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Mery Mogollón, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2026
But a Best Picture showdown with One Battle After Another helps Sinners maintain its populist cred.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2026
Kikuyu Land also covers the current political chaos in the country, as Kenyan president William Ruto, a former populist, has become widely criticized and has turned increasingly authoritarian.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 20 Jan. 2026
The rise of the populist far right is not just an American political phenomenon, after all.
—Matthias Matthijs, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2025
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Mery Mogollón, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2026
But a Best Picture showdown with One Battle After Another helps Sinners maintain its populist cred.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2026
Kikuyu Land also covers the current political chaos in the country, as Kenyan president William Ruto, a former populist, has become widely criticized and has turned increasingly authoritarian.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 20 Jan. 2026
The rise of the populist far right is not just an American political phenomenon, after all.
—Matthias Matthijs, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for populist
socialist
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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, a devout socialist and one of the most vocal opponents of the Pentagon’s Operation Epic Fury in Iran, brushed off the threat of being removed from the alliance.—
Mike Brest,
The Washington Examiner,
24 Apr. 2026
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He was later pardoned and won election for president as a socialist in 1999.—
CBS Miami Team,
CBS News,
21 Apr. 2026
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“Populist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/populist. Accessed 3 May. 2026.
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