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Wilsonian

American  
[wil-soh-nee-uhn] / wɪlˈsoʊ ni ən /

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or characteristic of Woodrow Wilson.


Etymology

Origin of Wilsonian

An Americanism dating back to 1915–20; Wilson + -ian

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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

And they did want a kind of hawkishness — but not a Wilsonian hawkishness, in service to an ambitious grand strategy to stabilize or remake the Middle East.

From New York Times Mar. 16, 2016

Moreover, in America broke forth a chorus of encouragement to the Allies to pay no attention to Wilsonian idealism.

From Woodrow Wilson and the World War A Chronicle of Our Own Times. by Charles Seymour

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