Quaker
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adjective
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Quakers have traditionally been committed to pacifism.
Pennsylvania was settled by a group of Quakers fleeing religious persecution.
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He took his oath with his hand on a book of poems by the city’s namesake, Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier, that belonged to the council’s sole remaining white person, Republican Cathy Warner.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
For months, activists have been demanding more support from city leadership, explained Elias Siegelman, an activist who works with No ICE Philly, which meets in the quintessentially Pennsylvanian location of a Quaker meeting house.
From Salon • Jan. 28, 2026
His wife, whom Mr. Murray plainly reveres, is a Quaker who doesn’t care all that much about the factual questions that bother him in this book.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025
Maj Thomas Stewart, Life Guards squadron leader, said Quaker was the only horse from the five that had been unable to return to its duties.
From BBC • Oct. 10, 2025
Skeptical readers couldn’t help wondering why spirits of people who had lived in places as different as eighteenth-century Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts, all sounded like a nineteenth-century Quaker abolitionist from western New York.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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