progressivist
Americanadjective
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committed to, pursuing, or enacting a progressive social or political agenda.
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characteristic of social or political progressives.
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In Brahms, Schoenberg found progressivist harmonic thinking that was logically heading toward atonality.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2024
Thus the impetus behind Bach’s remark was not progressivist but doctrinal.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2018
In short, Bach, in his unswerving religious conservatism, was living and working very much at odds with the progressivist currents of his day, and ours.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2018
A proper assessment of this document renders absurd any notion that Bach was a progressivist or a secularist.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2018
Yet I did not see myself as a progressivist and a humanitarian.
From The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters by McKenzie, Aimée G. Leffingwel
Perennialism leads to dogma and false orthodoxies; essentialism stagnates in the status quo; the progressivists, while strong on method, are not sure what they should be educating for.
From Time Magazine Archive
The progressivists treat the schools as laboratories of experience in which students learn chiefly by pragmatic problem solving.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then, abruptly, the party line changed; hard learning returned to favor, and the progressivists were kicked out.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many aspects of Western Reserve's reforms have since been adopted by other schools, and last month Dean Douglas D. Bond announced that the Cleveland progressivists already consider their system outdated.
From Time Magazine Archive
In real education, according to the ruling progressivists, we take a serious chance of impairing our mental health.
From Time Magazine Archive
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