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- adjective of or pertaining to Anglophilia.
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- adjective Alternative capitalization of
Anglophilic
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- adjective characterized by Anglophilia
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Examples
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My stint at the Sunday Times helped me win a Rhodes scholarship, in part because members of Rhodes selection committees tend to be, not surprisingly, quite anglophilic.
American Sketches Walter Isaacson 2009
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I participated the other night in an oddly formal, anglophilic, Oxford-style, for-and-against-the-proposition debate on the topic of (you guessed it) the mainstream media.
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Her premonition proved accurate when the mob soon turned on anything British due to Marie Antoinette's anglophilic tendencies.
Happy Bastille Day! Heather Carroll 2008
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Only some anglophilic delusion caused people to regard it as insightful.
"The battle for the Democratic Party is so bitter because it is a battle over culture." Ann Althouse 2008
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(Like the characters in a childish prep-school manuscript, other styles were bequeathed anglophilic names like “Kent,” “Stratford” and “Windsor.”)
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(Like the characters in a childish prep-school manuscript, other styles were bequeathed anglophilic names like “Kent,” “Stratford” and “Windsor.”)
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My anglophilic sensibilities were a little shaken by the juxtaposition of pub food on a sunny patio with a bubbling fountain — but as Micki reminded me, “You can find anything in LA.”
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It is my anglophilic gardening streak and my stubborn fire sign influences that make me emphasize right here, right now that a "yard" is a measure of garden soil.
Negating the past to fulfill the future - why I work on Sunday 2005
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His latest book looks at a big subject and interprets it in a manner that both contradicts the prevailing wisdom in academe and is bound to pluck at those anglophilic heartstrings.
A Bit of Bunting 2001
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His latest book looks at a big subject and interprets it in a manner that both contradicts the prevailing wisdom in academe and is bound to pluck at those anglophilic heartstrings.
A Bit of Bunting 2001
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