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Definition of Bourbonnext
as in archconservative

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as in stuffed shirt

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Recent Examples of Bourbon
Noun
Hot Honey Bourbon begin at 8 a.m. Once ordered, customers can pick up the bourbon starting at 4 p.m. on Friday at the Detroit City Distillery Tasting Room in Eastern Market. — Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 9 Aug. 2025 Long before bourbon dominated the liquor market, rye whiskey reigned supreme. — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 7 Aug. 2025
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López-Alt shared a recipe from a Kentucky friend who puts cocktail weenies in a slow cooker with a cup of ketchup, a cup of brown sugar, and a cup of bourbon before a party. — Dianna Douglas, NPR, 28 June 2026 Some bourbon that later achieves premium pricing at auction or retail began as inventory acquired and aged years earlier. — William Jones, USA Today, 29 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for Bourbon
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Bourbon
  1. archconservative
  2. square
  3. traditionalist
  4. Colonel Blimp
  5. neocon
  6. neoconservative
  7. paleoconservative
Noun
  • Those two issues, in particular, women’s empowerment and agrarian reform, went over like a lead balloon with the archconservatives of the country, especially religious.
    — Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 7 May 2026
  • Rachmaninoff has gone from being widely viewed as a musical archconservative to a protomodernist.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2023
Definition of archconservative
Noun
  • Lindsay Knapp and Maxine Rebeles were among the many veterans at the square on a sweltering morning.
    — Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 4 July 2026
  • Enjoy a bowl of this classic hearty ground beef recipe with plenty of shredded cheese, a dollop of sour cream, and maybe a square of corn bread.
    — Sheena Chihak, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 July 2026
Definition of square
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  • Still, many traditionalists don’t believe robotic elephants belong in temples.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 July 2026
  • But Francis also announced restrictions on the Latin Mass in 2021, angering many traditionalists.
    — Noah LaBelle, NPR, 2 July 2026
Definition of traditionalist
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  • In Zac’s report, Schoonmaker addressed Powell’s legendary filmmaking partnership with Emeric Pressburger, which spawned films such as The Red Shoes, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp and Black Narcissus.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 22 Aug. 2025
Definition of Colonel Blimp
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  • This faith caused the neocons to recoil in from the Obama administration’s 2015 nuclear deal with Iran.
    — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 17 June 2026
  • Moreover, during the Iraq war, the Jewish community could effectively argue that framing the conflict as a Jewish neocon conspiracy was baseless, even as some neoconservatives influenced policy.
    — Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2026
Definition of neocon
Noun
  • Senor and Stephens are neoconservatives who hardly needed to be convinced that the members of progressive movements were not friends of the Jewish people.
    — Eyal Press, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Moreover, during the Iraq war, the Jewish community could effectively argue that framing the conflict as a Jewish neocon conspiracy was baseless, even as some neoconservatives influenced policy.
    — Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2026
Definition of neoconservative
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  • The New York Times columnist has penned an unusually smart article identifying the late paleoconservative writer Samuel T. Francis as a prophet of Trumpism.
    — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 22 Sep. 2017
  • In his final act of excommunication, Buckley took a stand against the paleoconservative Pat Buchanan in 1991 for expressing opposition to the Persian Gulf war in terms that were both incendiary and undeniably anti-Semitic.
    — DAMON LINKER, New York Times, 8 May 2017
Definition of paleoconservative

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