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  • noun Plural form of centrist.

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Examples

  • Trying to reclaim reason and diplomacy, for the war mongering, self proclaimed centrists, is ridiculous.

    National Security Team of Rivals - Swampland - TIME.com 2008

  • Instead, Baer was then and is now interested in “framing” issues which for him means excluding non-centrists from the “discourse.” owenz Says:

    Matthew Yglesias » Excuses 2007

  • He apparently has succumbed or had to go along with appointing "centrists" -- a lot of them -- to fill out his advance people, his working groups, and his proposed economic team.

    Bernard Rowan: Change? 2010

  • He apparently has succumbed or had to go along with appointing "centrists" -- a lot of them -- to fill out his advance people, his working groups, and his proposed economic team.

    Bernard Rowan: Change? Bernard Rowan 2010

  • He apparently has succumbed or had to go along with appointing "centrists" -- a lot of them -- to fill out his advance people, his working groups, and his proposed economic team.

    Change? Bernard Rowan 2010

  • Boulder's legendary progressives - none the younger and likely to face future challenges from those often misleadingly called "centrists" - are still in control.

    Bob Wells: Boulder's Progressives Retain Power, But Only Barely 2009

  • He apparently has succumbed or had to go along with appointing "centrists" -- a lot of them -- to fill out his advance people, his working groups, and his proposed economic team.

    Bernard Rowan: Change? 2008

  • Nominal “liberals” name centrists and leftist activists just sniff and say “next time”, while the base is not the slightest perturbed.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Gov. Pawlenty’s Next Court Pick 2010

  • Nominal “liberals” name centrists and leftist activists just sniff and say “next time”, while the base is not the slightest perturbed.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Gov. Pawlenty’s Next Court Pick 2010

  • So as an olive branch to the people I've called centrists, and sometimes the "Religious-Industrial Complex," I'd like to suggest one bit of turf we can all share.

    Daniel Schultz: Judgment Day For Wall Street 2009

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