pacifists
- plural of pacifist.
Example Sentences
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Criticized by Yankee pacifists for resorting to violence, Clay replied, “how then can you ask me to go unarmed and yet manfully vindicate those doctrines which every where have been denounced with death?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025
And such a recognition wasn’t confined to pacifists but extended to policymakers.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2025
The Amish are pacifists, he hastened to add.
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2024
"These people are not pacifists; they have intentionally or otherwise become pawns of the aggressor," Wang wrote.
From Reuters ● Oct. 12, 2023
The guards, some of whom had previously identified themselves as pacifists, fell quickly into the role of hard-bitten disciplinarians.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
