Wilsonian
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of Wilsonian
Example Sentences
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A century later, surely we can find ways to make this Wilsonian formulation prevail against ghost fleets and their sponsors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026
For the so-called Wilsonian Warriors still with us - an ever-multiplying army - “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” doesn’t mark any kind of ending but a continuation in a lifelong journey.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 16, 2020
As the Harvard historian Erez Manela writes in his book, The Wilsonian Moment, Wilson was “hailed around the world as the prophet of a new era in world affairs.”
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2020
We still live, she claims, in “the Wilsonian century.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2018
You never hear James Whitcomb Riley or Edwin Markham spoken of as Wilsonian poets.
From The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces by Joyce Kilmer
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