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Deeply discount the moaning of Hollywood reactionaries and certain podcasters trying to edge themselves into the spotlight.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2025

He shares with the architectural reactionaries the impulse toward rawer, less manufactured surroundings.

From Slate • Aug. 21, 2023

We meet the Bollywood fan, the intense scientific genius, the band of cultural reactionaries, the Indian folklore cosplayers and so on.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 2, 2022

But as always happens when reactionaries pull their censorship pants on, the main focus is reading.

From Salon • Aug. 11, 2022

In the Papal States Pius IX put himself wholly in the hands of the reactionaries and the Jesuits.

From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Sedgwick, Henry Dwight