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Wilsonian

American  
[wil-soh-nee-uhn] / wɪlˈsoʊ ni ən /

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or characteristic of Woodrow Wilson.


Etymology

Origin of Wilsonian

An Americanism dating back to 1915–20; Wilson + -ian

Example Sentences

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A century later, surely we can find ways to make this Wilsonian formulation prevail against ghost fleets and their sponsors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

For the so-called Wilsonian Warriors still with us - an ever-multiplying army - “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” doesn’t mark any kind of ending but a continuation in a lifelong journey.

From Washington Times • Dec. 16, 2020

As the Harvard historian Erez Manela writes in his book, The Wilsonian Moment, Wilson was “hailed around the world as the prophet of a new era in world affairs.”

From Slate • Jun. 30, 2020

I don’t think that we have a grandiose Wilsonian vision of how to bring peace to planet Earth.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 13, 2020

It is enough to admit that in the light of the Wilsonian doctrine they were not more incompatible with that doctrine than the claims made by other Powers and accorded by the Supreme Council.

From The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Dillon, Emile Joseph

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