non-Communist
Americanadjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of non-Communist
First recorded in 1915–20
Example Sentences
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As a non-Communist Party member, he was one of the most pro-reform voices at Guangming Daily and wrote articles in favor of an independent legal system, his family said.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2023
As the historian Landon Storrs has shown, social democrats and other non-Communist leftists in the federal bureaucracy—especially women—had their careers destroyed.
From Slate ● Nov. 19, 2021
He said that he had been influenced by his German grandmother, who fled the Sudetenland before World War II, and that he had been drawn to Mr. Engdahl’s vision of “a non-Communist, socialist Europe.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 2018
In 1954, after Vietnam gained independence through a guerrilla war waged against the French, the country was divided into the Communist North and the non-Communist South.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2016
The Christian Democratic Union, a non-Communist party pushing for reunification with West Germany, emerged victorious.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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