hard-liner

Or hard·lin·er

[hahrd-lahy-ner]

noun

1. a person who adheres rigidly to a dogma, theory, or plan.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hard-liner¹

First recorded in 1960–65; hard-line + -er ¹

Example Sentences

In 1976 Jimmy Carter gave no hint that he would spearhead major regulatory reforms across the transportation and energy industries or appoint inflation hard-liner Paul Volcker to the Federal Reserve.

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Trump named Stephen Miller, an immigration hard-liner also linked to Project 2025, as his deputy chief of staff for policy.

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Matthew Yglesias bemoans Biden’s supposed lack of urgency on inflation but can’t cite a fiscal misstep beyond student-debt forgiveness—a policy that the Supreme Court blocked, and which another student-debt hard-liner, the economist Jason Furman, calculated would have contributed only 0.2 or 0.3 percent to inflation anyway.

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Trump, who made mass deportations a centerpiece of his 2024 election campaign, is also expected to appoint another longtime ally and immigration hard-liner, Stephen Miller, as deputy chief of staff for policy.

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Mr. Rosendale, a right-wing hard-liner, had been viewed as the only serious challenger to Mr. Sheehy, for whom the Republican establishment had worked to clear the field.

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