Levitsky

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proper noun

A surname from Russian.

UncommonScrabble 18

Meanings

proper nounLevitsky (plural Levitskys)

plural Levitskys

  1. A surname from Russian.
    1 more example

    “Honest to god, I’ve never seen anything like it,” said Steven Levitsky, a Harvard political scientist and coauthor of “How Democracies Die” and “Competitive Authoritarianism.” […] In Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has purged thousands of judges from the judiciary as part of a broader effort to consolidate power in his own hands. But that required decades of effort and multiple constitutional changes, Levitsky said. It only became fully successful after a failed 2016 coup provided a political justification for the purge.

    2025 March 20, Amanda Taub, “‘This is worse’: Trump’s judicial defiance veers beyond the autocrat playbook”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 23 Apr 2025

Origin

  1. RussianЛеви́цкий
  2. EnglishLevitsky

Derived from Russian Леви́цкий (Levíckij).

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APA

Levitsky. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Levitsky

MLA

“Levitsky.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Levitsky. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Levitsky,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Levitsky.

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