How to Use anti-fascist in a Sentence

anti-fascist

adjective
  • To me, that’s not anti-fascist.
    — Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Antifa is short for anti-fascists.
    — Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 June 2026
  • This kind of anti-fascist rhetoric is nothing new for Green Day.
    — Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Those rumors are often tied to antifa, which is short for anti-fascist.
    — Sacbee.com, 25 Mar. 2026
  • How will anti-fascists respond?
    — Trevor Hunnicutt, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
  • But the anti-fascist lament has a dark secret history.
    — Literary Hub, 19 Jan. 2026
  • But the anti-fascist lament has a dark secret history.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Antifa is short for anti-fascist or anti-fascism.
    — Jeff Wagner, CBS News, 17 June 2026
  • He was being targeted by the far right for his anti-racist, anti-fascist activism.
    — Ali Breland, The New Republic, 26 Apr. 2023
  • In the 80 years since, it has been adopted more broadly as an anti-fascist rallying song.
    — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • But what is the anti-fascist movement, known collectively as antifa?
    — Josh Meyer, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The group describes itself as pro-democracy, pro-immigrant, and anti-fascist.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 12 Aug. 2025
  • His father, an anti-fascist who is thought to have been a mine surveyor, was shot by the Nazi forces when Cavalli was just three years old.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Woody Guthrie’s children’s songs are as beautiful and as impactful as his songs about immigrant rights and his anti-fascist songs.
    — Steve Appleford, SPIN, 28 June 2024
  • Vysotsky said experts across the country who study the anti-fascist movement are closely watching the San Diego case.
    — Will Carless, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Now the worst people in Hollywood make films about the worst people in the world (those who pretend to be anti-fascist yet are fascist themselves).
    — Armond White, National Review, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Meanwhile, in San Diego, two anti-fascist activists found guilty of conspiracy are each sentenced to two years in prison.
    — Will Carless, USA TODAY, 29 June 2024
  • Waters has strongly denied antisemitism, claiming that Israel is just one target of a broad, anti-fascist stage show.
    — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 31 Jan. 2024
  • There are no such worries about The Secret Agent, a Brazilian movie that boasts pristine anti-fascist bona fides.
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2026
  • From the 1920s onwards, the novel was one of the ways in which anti-fascists challenged the right’s ascendancy.
    — David Renton may 12, Literary Hub, 12 May 2025
  • Cohen said this may be a reference to lyrics in a somewhat controversial Italian song that is anti-fascist in nature.
    — Ben Goggin, NBC news, 12 Sep. 2025
  • But as a man, Oppenheimer was artistic and sensitive, a lover of poetry as much as of science, and a strident anti-fascist.
    — Christina Newland, Rolling Stone, 10 May 2023
  • Antifa is short for anti-fascist and often used as an umbrella description for left-leaning militant groups that take part in demonstrations.
    — Emerson Clarridge updated March 11, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Mar. 2026
  • His departure came after a group of Proud Boys members were involved in a fight with anti-fascists in New York.
    — Alexander Lowie, The Conversation, 29 Dec. 2025
  • For starters, antifa, which is short for anti-fascist, is an ideology whose adherents are not part of any unified organization.
    — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Both suggested an antifa, or anti-fascist movement, connection.
    — Stephanie Murray, USA Today, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Then a brawl between white supremacists and anti-fascist (antifa) demonstrators in Detroit ratcheted things up.
    — Laurie Udesky, USA TODAY, 6 May 2023
  • This was the name of an anti-fascist and anti-xenophobic group operating in Turin in the early 2000s.
    — Manuel Borja-Villel, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2024
  • Inspired by the anti-fascist ideals of World War II, the coalition sought to make the nation more democratic and its economy more fair.
    — Aaron Coy Moulton, Twin Cities, 25 Jan. 2026
  • Inspired by the anti-fascist ideals of World War II, the coalition sought to make the nation more democratic and its economy more fair.
    — Aaron Coy Moulton, The Conversation, 15 Jan. 2026

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