anti-Communist
Britishnoun
adjective
Example Sentences
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Most of the men had been arrested years earlier during anti-Communist raids by the police of Greek dictator Ioannis Metaxas.
From Barron's • Feb. 17, 2026
Vance was the blue-blood diplomat, poised to settle disputes through patient negotiation; Brzezinski was the hard-core anti-Communist, whose first instinct in approaching a crisis was to ratchet up the pressure on Moscow.
From Slate • Dec. 29, 2024
Yet he delivers career-best work in Showtime’s queer melodrama “Fellow Travelers,” as anti-Communist crusader-turned-gay rights activist Tim Laughlin, by leaving behind the self-assured rakes and tapping a new wellspring: soft power.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2024
“Good Night, and Good Luck” portrays the period when Murrow’s work brought him into conflict with Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, the Republican of Wisconsin who became notorious for the excesses of his anti-Communist crusade.
From New York Times • May 13, 2024
Under the Geneva Accords of 1954, Vietnam was divided into the Communist North and anti-Communist South.
From The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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