Wilsonian
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of Wilsonian
Example Sentences
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It would be nice to think we live in a Wilsonian garden where law governs relations among nations.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 5, 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
I don’t think that we have a grandiose Wilsonian vision of how to bring peace to planet Earth.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 13, 2020
This startling development shed a strong light upon the new ordering of the world and its relation to the Wilsonian gospel, complicated with secret negotiations, protectorates without mandates, and the one-sided abrogation of compacts.
From The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Dillon, Emile Joseph
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