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
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
Page could not sympathize with all the details of the Wilsonian Mexican policy, yet he saw in it a high-minded purpose and a genuine humanitarianism.
From The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II by Hendrick, Burton Jesse
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