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- adjective Of or pertaining to Mikhail Gorbachev (born 1931), the last head of state of the
USSR , who introduced liberalizing reforms.
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Examples
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A lackluster apparatchik unknown outside Communist Party circles, Gennady Yanayev squeaked by on a second vote (and plenty of Gorbachevian arm-twisting) to become the first Soviet vice president.
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Under those circumstances, there is little chance that the Gorbachevian movement for reform and openness will affect the North Korean attitude in the near future.
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But they do have plans for a post-Kim Korea that would be a sort of Tibetan like buffer state of Gorbachevian communism that would gradually have more and more links with South Korea.
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The entire time I was crawling and fighting for my balance, unbeknownst to me, the metal frame of my headlamp was conducting the heat off my forehead into the bitter windchill, leaving a Gorbachevian crimson frostbite mark centered between my temples.
Between a Rock and a Hard Place Aron Ralston 2004
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The entire time I was crawling and fighting for my balance, unbeknownst to me, the metal frame of my headlamp was conducting the heat off my forehead into the bitter windchill, leaving a Gorbachevian crimson frostbite mark centered between my temples.
127 Hours Aron Ralston 2004
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The entire time I was crawling and fighting for my balance, unbeknownst to me, the metal frame of my headlamp was conducting the heat off my forehead into the bitter windchill, leaving a Gorbachevian crimson frostbite mark centered between my temples.
127 Hours Aron Ralston 2004
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The entire time I was crawling and fighting for my balance, unbeknownst to me, the metal frame of my headlamp was conducting the heat off my forehead into the bitter windchill, leaving a Gorbachevian crimson frostbite mark centered between my temples.
127 Hours Aron Ralston 2004
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Do you see him as a transitional figure of sort of the Gorbachevian mold or is it something less than that or is it something more than that?
Press Briefing By Mccurry And Berger And Sperling ITY National Archives 1998
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Inside me, depression and alarm are growing, the sense of crisis of the Gorbachevian idea.
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More important than any of these points is Mr. Skvorecký's challenge to my view that there can be no return to the conditions of the pre-Gorbachevian era.
'The Gorbachev Prospect': An Exchange Skvorecky, Josef 1988
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