right-minded
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Mao after 1949 has been thoroughly reassessed by historians and is now regarded as a monster by most right-minded people; but views of early Mao—from 1921 until 1949—remain stubbornly rose-tinted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
Added another, “The world of right-minded musicians is depending on you. No pressure.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2020
These are tiny firecrackers designed to spark empathy, to make any right-minded person sign up to wage Taylor’s battles right alongside her.
From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2019
On some level, many of us have come to tacitly believe that when right-minded people start buying the right things we can make the world a better place.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 1, 2017
He was no fool and it was, he could not help feeling, extremely odd that any right-minded rabbit should choose to walk into Efrafa of his own accord.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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