Democratic-Republican
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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The Democratic-Republican Party of Thomas Jefferson supported the name change.
From Slate • Dec. 20, 2025
Twenty-four years later, the term “gerrymander” was coined when the Democratic-Republican Party drew a salamander-shaped state Senate district to benefit Massachusetts Gov. Elbridge Gerry.
From Salon • Aug. 3, 2025
Then there was John Adams, a Federalist who was the nation’s second president, and Thomas Jefferson, its third and a Democratic-Republican.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 12, 2024
Then 2024 might bring the most dramatically nonbinary election since the Democratic-Republican framing of presidential politics began in 1856.
From Washington Post • Apr. 28, 2023
This new party was in fact a rehabilitation of the Adams wing of the Democratic-Republican party, a feeble organization, into which shrewd political leaders breathed new life by utilizing the Anti-Masonic feeling.
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