Noun
accommodationism \ ə-ˌkä-mə-ˈdā-shə-ni-zəm \ noun
Recent Examples on the Web
//It was praised in some quarters as groundbreaking and criticized in others as reductive, Pollyannaish and accommodationist — condemned, in short, for glossing over the stark realities of life that black Americans faced daily.
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New York Times, "Diahann Carroll, Actress Who Broke Barriers With ‘Julia,’ Dies at 84," 4 Oct. 2019
//In Washington, Feehery has become the face of the Republican establishment’s accommodationist wing, whose general posture is to shrug at Trumpian anarchy and to view the press, Democrats, and anti-Trump conservatives as alarmist.
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Ryan Lizza, The New Yorker, "Why Trump Needs an Enemy," 17 Feb. 2017
//Nashville is home to deeply ambitious country music centrists, accommodationist lifers, would-be outlaws, actual outlaws, and also to Mr. Simpson, who, despite some shared DNA here and there, is not any of those things.
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Jon Caramanica, New York Times, "with the headline: A Genuine Alternative to Alt Country.," 31 Mar. 2016
//Many African American activists had broken with King, advocating Black Power rather than racial reconciliation, abandoning nonviolence, and denouncing King as an accommodationist.
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Drew Gilpin Faust, The Atlantic, "Race, History, and Memories of a Virginia Girlhood," 18 July 2019
//Ava DuVernay is Hollywood’s current reigning accommodationist.
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Armond White, National Review, "The New York Times’ Black-Film Roundtable Ignores Black American Excellence," 10 July 2019
//Many African American activists had broken with King, advocating Black Power rather than racial reconciliation, abandoning nonviolence, and denouncing King as an accommodationist.
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Drew Gilpin Faust, The Atlantic, "Race, History, and Memories of a Virginia Girlhood," 18 July 2019
//Ava DuVernay is Hollywood’s current reigning accommodationist.
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Armond White, National Review, "The New York Times’ Black-Film Roundtable Ignores Black American Excellence," 10 July 2019
//To Douthat Francis is an accommodationist, and decline has reached the apex of the church.
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Paul Elie, New York Times, "A Conservative Catholic Begs the Pope: Lead Us Not Into Temptation," 9 Apr. 2018
First Known Use of accommodationist
Adjective
1858, in the meaning defined above
Noun
1964, in the meaning defined above
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