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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

In a sense, these are true reactionaries, whereas totalitarianism tends to have a revolutionary element.

From Salon Jun. 22, 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

The reactionaries, headed by the Jesuits, sought therefore all the more eagerly to deal severely with the Spaniard Michael Molinos.

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.