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
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
In the reorganization of the former Hapsburg territories, Wilsonian principles were always in the minds of the delegates, although in a few cases they were honored more in the breach than in the observance.
From Woodrow Wilson and the World War A Chronicle of Our Own Times. by Seymour, Charles
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