How to Use revanchist in a Sentence

revanchist

adjective
  • Russian officials, echoing their leader, are telling women to start young — at 18. As Putin seeks to restore Russia’s status as a superpower, his revanchist policies are rolling back women’s rights, Russian feminists say, with idealized roles fitted to the imperial era that predated communism.
    — Natalia Abbakumova, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
  • Instead, Putin is on his own revanchist journey of restoring Russia’s empire.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Thousands of miles away, officials from another country facing up to a revanchist neighbor are taking notes.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Weiner puts us inside a revanchist Kremlin, angry at its lost empire and happy to make Americans pay for it.
    — Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2020
  • The possibility of a revanchist Nazi movement coming to power was not unthinkable at the time.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 6 June 2019
  • This should be a chastening moment for revanchist forces in Tennessee’s legislature and across the country.
    — Elise Hammond, CNN, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Preoccupations like these have fuelled a revanchist current in education, which has taken many forms.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2022
  • As at its end, a European country — then Yugoslavia, now Ukraine — is being torn apart by a revanchist dictator.
    — Noah Millman, The Week, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Fascism represented a hopeful example of a revanchist elite reversing the tide.
    — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Three decades later, Ukrainians still continue to fight for independence from a revanchist Moscow.
    — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 16 Dec. 2022
  • It is called the liberal order, an open commercial system in which participants can trade and prosper in peace without fear of being gobbled up by revanchist empires.
    — Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
  • His political failures helped usher in a revanchist, right-wing surge that still saturates Russia, and that threatens nuclear warfare once more.
    — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Instead of being forced to reckon with the ashes of empire, a revanchist dictator has throttled Russia’s politics, and turned his sights on now carving his neighbors.
    — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Putting a significant part of your energy-supply system in the hands of an aggressive, revanchist state like Russia is to offer a potent geopolitical lever.
    — Jordan McGillis, National Review, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The coup brought a revanchist evangelist right-wing to power in Bolivia, which repeatedly put off new elections for nearly a year, when Morales’ party won the presidency.
    — Laura Weiss, The New Republic, 11 Jan. 2021
  • Yes, some of the truly revanchist ideas that pervaded in football have faded, but chalking these developments up entirely to enlightenment is a comforting delusion.
    — Robert Silverman, Rolling Stone, 12 Feb. 2023
  • That commitment has been welcomed by allied nations, which want Germany to rearm and help counter a revanchist Russia — a stunning historical reversal.
    — Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Trump’s own 2016 presidential campaign can therefore be seen as a revanchist effort to turn back the political clock to an earlier halcyon era of white sovereignty.
    — Edward A. Wasserman, Hartford Courant, 18 June 2024
  • Russia, meanwhile, replaced Soviet rule with a revanchist autocracy.
    — The Economist, 7 Dec. 2019
  • Faced with the prospect of this revelation, some recoil, taking solace in revanchist notions of separation, nationalism, and self-reliance laced with magical thinking.
    — Astra Taylor, The New Republic, 6 May 2021
  • Rather than destabilizing Russia and its neighbors, a Ukrainian victory would eliminate a powerful revanchist force and boost the cause of democracy worldwide.
    — Garry Kasparov, Foreign Affairs, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Trump’s pressure campaign urging Ukraine to accept borders redrawn by a revanchist Russia had already strained relations between his inner circle and Europe’s far-right movements.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Of particular interest to Beijing will be how quickly and decisively European powers have moved to sever economic ties to a revanchist Russia.
    — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 May 2022
  • But many Europeans are no longer interested in being sensitive to a figure like Putin or tolerating his revanchist resentments and neo-imperial ambitions.
    — Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2022
  • While never producing evidence for his claim, Putin cited his need to defend them — underpinned by his revanchist view that much of Ukraine exists on territory that is historically Russia’s.
    — Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2022
  • As for French cinema, Daney writes incisively about the revanchist politics of nineteen-seventies France and the resulting decadence of French cinema.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2022
  • The opposition figure’s few comments on the Ukrainian region came in the swirl surrounding Russia’s initial 2014 invasion, when Putin first launched his revanchist project in Ukraine.
    — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 4 Oct. 2022
  • And its clientele in this revanchist effort includes oil companies fearing clean-energy cars and also an auto industry that now sees an opportunity to batten on low oil prices and the consequent consumer lust for gas-guzzling trucks and SUVs.
    — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Since the August day 31 years ago when a group of leaders in the nearby parliament shocked the nation by declaring independence from the collapsing Soviet Union, the country has periodically fought to keep itself apart from a revanchist Russia.
    — Serhiy Morgunov, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2022

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