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How to use revisionist in a sentence

14 example sentences · adjective, noun

Revisionist means of or pertaining to revisionism. Example: “The revolutionary committee of Changtien commune, Kuantien County, Liaoning Province, has led the commune members to earnestly study Chairman Mao's works and criticize revisionist theories advocated by Liu Shao-chi.”

Examples of revisionist by meaning

adjectiveOf or pertaining to revisionism.

  • The revolutionary committee of Changtien commune, Kuantien County, Liaoning Province, has led the commune members to earnestly study Chairman Mao's works and criticize revisionist theories advocated by Liu Shao-chi.1971 April 26 [1971 April 17], “Take Grain As Key Link and Insure All-Round Development--Correctly Handle Relationship Between Gain and...

More sentences with revisionist

  • What the revisionists have done, Milton Friedman included, is provide ideological cover for a moribund political party.2009 April 9, “The New Deal Revisionists: Will They Ever Learn?”, in New York Times. From the entry hypercapitalist
  • The East European satellite states, Cuba and Outer Mongolia are petty revisionists.1977 August 7, L. Chen, “Teng returns for Vance visit”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVIII, number 31, Taipei, page 3. From the entry Outer Mongolia
  • It was advanced by the revisionists at the very dawn of imperialism.1959 December, G. Khromushin, anonymous translator, “The Bourgeois Revisionist Myth of the ‘Democratization of Capital’”, in Problems of…. From the entry herostratically
  • With that record of revisionist chutzpah it is easy to see why Truss thinks she can wipe the slate clean.2022 August 3, Rafael Behr, “Johnson’s school of half-truths could spell victory for Truss”, in The Guardian, page 2. From the entry Trussian
  • Like revisionist historical novels, metahistorical novels propose two stories, one set in the past, the other in the present.2021, Ina Bergmann, quoting Daniel Candel Bormann, The Nineteenth Century Revis(it)ed: The New Historical Fiction, Routledge, →ISBN. From the entry metahistorical
  • Of course Don Cherry, the other formidable Kingstonian cheerleader, remains a stubborn member of the Kingston hockey revisionists.2012, Paul Henderson, How Hockey Explains Canada: The Sport That Defines a Country, →ISBN. From the entry Kingstonian
  • Peiping regards Moscow as the revisionist headquarters.1977 August 7, L. Chen, “Teng returns for Vance visit”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVIII, number 31, Taipei, page 3. From the entry Outer Mongolia
  • (Feng Chi-huang), deputy secretary of Yangchu County CCP Committee, said: "The revisionists have no truth in their hands.1976 October 22 [1976 October 20], “Taiyuan Meeting Pledges Unity Around CCPCC”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I…. From the entry Yangchu
  • British churches are divided over whether to allow filming of The Da Vinci Code, an adaptation of Dan Brown's biblically revisionist megaseller.2005 August 16, “'Da Vinci' film divides British churches”, in USA Today, sourced from Associated Press. From the entry megaseller
  • The appearance of the first wave of revisionist studies excited a great deal of interest and controversy in the media and more than a flutter in the academic dovecote.2001 November 15, Avi Shlaim, “Israel Confronts Its Past”, in St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford (Conflict, Justice, and…. From the entry flutter in the dovecote
  • He asked the operator to find Chairman Mao. (Prime Minister Chou laughs) Without orders, the operator, unauthorized, answered him, "You are a revisionist, therefore I will not connect you."1972 February 23, Chou En-lai, quotee, Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1969-1972, published 2006, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry Chen Pao
  • The Soviet revisionist renegade clique is struggling desperately in the hope of saving itself from doom, but this will only bring on its destruction more quickly."1969 March 14 [1969 March 13], “Report from Border Areas”, in Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcasts, number 50, Foreign Broadcast…. From the entry tsar
  • An example of such comparison must have happened in the mind of the first alt.revisionist to think of taking his show on the road and bringing revisionist postings to sci.skeptic.1999 October 11, RockyMtnCougar, “Compare and Contrast”, in sci.skeptic (Usenet), retrieved 16 May 2022. From the entry alt.revisionist

Meaning of revisionist

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to revisionism.
  2. noun A proponent of revisionism.

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Questions about revisionist in a sentence

How do you use revisionist in a sentence?
Revisionist is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “The revolutionary committee of Changtien commune, Kuantien County, Liaoning Province, has led the commune members to earnestly study Chairman Mao's works and criticize revisionist theories advocated by Liu Shao-chi.”
What is a short sentence with revisionist?
“Peiping regards Moscow as the revisionist headquarters.”
What does revisionist mean?
Revisionist means of or pertaining to revisionism.

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