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Princeton's WordNet

  1. revisionistnoun

    a Communist who tries to rewrite Marxism to justify a retreat from the revolutionary position

Wiktionary

  1. revisionistnoun

    A proponent of revisionism

  2. revisionistadjective

    Of or pertaining to revisionism

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  1. revisionist

    A revisionist is someone who advocates for a revised or different interpretation, understanding, or view of historical events, ideas, policies, academic theories, or cultural norms. Often rooted in new evidence, perspectives, or societal changes, the revision can challenge or modify the established or traditionally accepted versions. This term is frequently used in fields like history, politics, sociology, and literature.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of revisionist in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of revisionist in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of revisionist in a Sentence

  1. Scott C. Holstad:

    today is a good day for murder love hatred sex violence drugs revisionist attitudes anarchy of the sense letters and the like teatime exists in the MinD snarling underground day addiction

  2. Marsha Blackburn:

    Regardless of the radical propaganda being pushed by the left, God created men and women differently from a physical standpoint, and that’s a biological fact, now, female athletes like Riley Gaines, who have dedicated their entire lives to a sport, are being defeated by a competitor that was a man just three years ago. Joe Biden's vision for female sports will result in two teams – one team of men and another team of folks that used to be men. We should champion biological women and their historical achievements, not implement revisionist biology and destroy their records.

  3. A.E. Samaan:

    The claim that Darwin’s theories were at the core of eugenics, the racial science at the core of Nazism, are not new. They are not revisionist history made upon the revelations of the Death Camps. These claims precede The Holocaust by several decades. American and British icons of science, namely Darwin’s relatives and colleagues, were making this claim before Adolf Hitler was even born, and continued to do so on up through the end of WWII.

  4. Foreign Ministry:

    Promoting these revisionist symbols personally by the prime minister is completely unacceptable.

  5. Nicolle Wallace:

    Operation Warp Speed didn't do anything to get a needle in the arms, so a lot of disinformation. It felt almost scripted by someone close to the president who wanted that revisionist history.

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