How to Use communist in a Sentence

communist

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  • Korea was then rocked by a civil war between the communists in the North and the U.N.-backed forces in the South.
    — Lauretta Charlton, New York Times, 22 June 2023
  • The nations of a region wracked with conflict and the long shadow of the communist ...
    — Scott Howard, National Review, 11 June 2023
  • When the communists sent her husband to prison, Ha Luu baked bread.
    — Mrussell, oregonlive, 31 May 2023
  • And that’s just as bad, maybe worse, than being a communist.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2022
  • You could be fired from your job if your Aunt Martha was whispered to be a communist.
    — John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 14 Mar. 2023
  • After the end of the Cold War, Mr. Babis was among the former communists who bought up what remained of the old order.
    — New York Times, 11 Dec. 2019
  • Even Beard, the rom-communist doubter, finds the moment magic.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 20 Aug. 2021
  • Also — since this was made by John Wayne in the ’60s — the message is probably also don’t be a communist.
    — Adrian Daub, Longreads, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Wishing to be a good communist, Xi has tacked in the other direction.
    — Dexter Roberts, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2022
  • During his decades in power, the 61-year-old switched from a pro-Serbian communist to a pro-Western politician.
    — Predrag Milic, ajc, 3 Apr. 2023
  • In 1954, at the height of the McCarthy era, Oppenheimer was accused of being a communist and even a Soviet spy.
    — Calder Walton, Fortune, 24 July 2023
  • Do not follow the advice of Twitter communists and stage a rent strike with hammer and sickle in hand, tempting as that might be.
    — Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 26 Mar. 2020
  • When the quit this year, , a tsunami of invective washed over social media, calling him a communist, a traitor, a crook.
    — Washington Post, 3 June 2020
  • Still, Kundera was not the most orthodox of communists.
    — Jared Marcel Pollen, The New Republic, 12 July 2023
  • Nothing like supporting a communist to loss a few fans!
    — NBC News, 28 Feb. 2020
  • Portland wants lipstick, but the pig ran a socialist and a communist for mayor.
    — oregonlive, 3 May 2021
  • The excitement of shrugging off their communist past ushered in a time of hopefulness and change.
    — Cristian Gherasim, CNN, 17 June 2022
  • Once again, the United States is using some communists to contain others.
    — Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
  • A lot of people became fascists, and a lot of people became communists.
    — Thalia Beaty, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Ball had registered to vote as a communist in 1936 at the behest of, and in honor of, her socialist grandfather, Fred Hunt.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 21 Dec. 2021
  • As a lapsed communist who still hates capitalism, in the early books Russell had to deal with something that seems worse than either — Hitler and his Nazis.
    — Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The economy of the communist-run island has been battered by both the pandemic and increased US sanctions.
    — Patrick Oppmann, CNN, 25 June 2021
  • Posobiec’s book warns children against the specious promises of lupine communists.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
  • In Chile, long the free-market model for the region, a communist last month won the coveted job of mayor of Santiago.
    — Washington Post, 3 June 2021
  • In 1936 Nazi Germany wrote the script for the answer to that question, which communist China has been following in Beijing this winter.
    — Nr Editors, National Review, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Being the Ricardos' fact check:Was Lucille Ball a communist?
    — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 11 May 2022
  • Kundera seems to have remained a communist even into the late 1960s, long after many had lost any hope for transformation from within the regime.
    — Jared Marcel Pollen, The New Republic, 12 July 2023
  • The phrase comes from an interview Neel gave to the communist periodical the Daily Worker in 1950.
    — Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2021
  • In our view, communist China is not only a real and urgent threat to democracy and peace–but also to business.
    — Keith Krach, Fortune, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Talking with his teammates, one of the guys wonders whether Nozick was an anarcho-communist.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 16 Feb. 2023

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