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
Max had been a brilliant and leading organizer of the Yiddish Bund, a humane form of non-Communist leftism that attracted tens of thousands of adherents in prerevolutionary Russia, Lithuania and Poland.
From New York Times • Apr. 6, 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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