How to Use radicalism in a Sentence

radicalism

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  • The radicalism nurtured in the 1990s was more than the work of one man.
    — Claire Potter, The New Republic, 11 Oct. 2022
  • In a way, the current radicalism flips the idea of The Remnant on its head.
    — Sam Adler-Bell, The New Republic, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Will Daly, for his part, did not dodge the charge of radicalism.
    — oregonlive, 4 June 2021
  • Kennedy’s hair grew at the same rate as his radicalism.
    — Michael O’Donnell, WSJ, 9 June 2017
  • This radicalism is a threat to our city, our state, and our nation.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Hu warned in a blog post against a return to radicalism.
    — Fox News, 8 Sep. 2021
  • But the country has no culture of radicalism to match the chaos of those neighbors.
    — Andrew Solomon, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 July 2019
  • In the case of Islam the aim was partly to prevent the spread of radicalism and with it, terrorism.
    — The Economist, 26 Sep. 2019
  • That unique radicalism of the GOP is the quality that stands out to me and other critics.
    — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 24 Oct. 2017
  • The radicalism is gone and the message is clear: Fall was a season about safe, by-the-book masculine codes.
    — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 25 Jan. 2024
  • There are strains of radicalism on the left that must horrify any NTR.
    — David Roberts, Vox, 24 Apr. 2018
  • The hybridity of the Swahili coast meant that Gurnah couldn’t embrace the back-to-the-land radicalism of a writer like Ngũgĩ.
    — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2022
  • In the face of such challenges, realism and radicalism are not so far apart.
    — The Editors, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2020
  • But the impact of this kind of radicalism is rarely understood in the moment.
    — Nathaniel Friedman, Slate Magazine, 8 May 2017
  • His childhood was steeped in Elvis and cowboy movies, his adolescence in the era of ’60s rock and radicalism.
    — Lizzy Goodman, Billboard, 6 Oct. 2017
  • Whatever Pelosi’s plans might have been, they’ve been lost in a fog of anti-Semitism and left-wing radicalism.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 13 July 2019
  • There are signs that even moderates on Capitol Hill are unnerved by the radicalism of the Supreme Court.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2022
  • The league and the owners were attempting to preempt any budding radicalism on the NBPA’s part.
    — Nathaniel Friedman, The New Republic, 1 Aug. 2020
  • The escape came days after a man flagged for radicalism stabbed five people in Paris.
    — Fox News, 17 May 2018
  • The army is also facing a probe into right-wing radicalism in its ranks.
    — Reuters, Fortune, 21 June 2017
  • These efforts are occurring at a time when anti-Semitism and radicalism are on the rise elsewhere in the Arab world.
    — Yardena Schwartz, Newsweek, 6 Sep. 2017
  • The deployment was a response to the burgeoning threat of Islamist radicalism in the area.
    — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 21 Oct. 2017
  • This radicalism on the far right creates an opening for extremism on the far left.
    — Elise Jordan, Time, 25 Sep. 2017
  • But Ocasio-Cortez’s radicalism is not viewed well by all.
    — Ananya Kumar-Banerjee, Teen Vogue, 29 June 2018
  • Al-Hawl has become a hotbed of radicalism, a kind of mini-caliphate.
    — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 9 Apr. 2021
  • The aim was to have the mosque under state control, Mr. Kalantzis said, adding that a site overseen by the state was less likely to become a breeding ground for radicalism.
    — Niki Kitsantonis, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2020
  • Perhaps as alarming as the rhetoric is the procedural radicalism of the Democrats.
    — The Editors, National Review, 21 Jan. 2022
  • In the hysterical post-Roe scramble, Democrats are sure to show their hand on this radicalism.
    — Nate Hochman, National Review, 6 May 2022
  • When the youngest son, Nazareth, returns home to Illinois with an uninvited friend, the family is forced into a reckoning with itself, its faith and the legacies of Black radicalism.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Trump and Fico are the embodiment of the opposition to the establishment’s growing radicalism.
    — Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 18 July 2024

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