incrementalist
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Hovstad fancies himself a revolutionary; Aslaksen is a cautious incrementalist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2024
Her son Scott saw her as an "incrementalist" who "wasn't trying to knock down tradition too much".
From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2023
Roberts is considered more of an incrementalist conservative.
From Reuters ● Jun. 25, 2022
I think of you as someone who’s OK being an incrementalist.
From Slate ● Nov. 24, 2020
But he is also regarded as an incrementalist who prefers a slow, step-by-step process for staking out a position, shying away from big, bold precedent-shaking decisions.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2018
And we need the realists and incrementalists, those who address the here and now.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2025
She rose briefly last fall to a commanding position as the center of gravity in the party between Sanders’s proposed revolution and the party’s incrementalists.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 9, 2020
Hospitals and heroic interventions got the large investments; incrementalists were scanted.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 15, 2017
Many people work really hard every day, but they’re incrementalists.
From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2010
Anglicans, says Harmon ruefully, are incrementalists, and "that has continued through this season."
From Time Magazine Archive
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