How to Use adventurism in a Sentence

adventurism

noun
Definition of adventurismnext
  • But this is Putin’s adventurism, and the left must stand firmly against it.
    — Matthew Duss, The New Republic, 1 June 2022
  • That distinct brand of come-what-may adventurism is just what these times require.
    — Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2021
  • In his heedless, amoral, cowboy adventurism, he is meant to be a kind of mini-Reagan.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 27 Sep. 2017
  • Tehran’s adventurism through proxy forces in the Middle East has hardly been deterred.
    — Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2021
  • In the near term, this will allow commanders to keep pace in day-to-day competition with the PLA and help deter its adventurism.
    — Roger I. Zakheim, National Review, 16 Aug. 2021
  • By pulling out of Syria, Mr. Trump is missing a chance to impose military costs on Iran’s adventurism.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2018
  • For him, jazz will always mean cross-pollination, adventurism and faith in what’s ahead.
    — Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 29 July 2019
  • Yet Russia's failure to take over the entire country and the unified Western response may serve as a red flag to military adventurism.
    — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 24 May 2022
  • Yet Russia’s failure to take over the entire country and the unified Western response may serve as a red flag to military adventurism.
    — New York Times, 23 May 2022
  • The line between pandemic deterrence and adventurism can be hard to draw.
    — The Economist, 18 June 2020
  • Yet Russia’s abject failure to take over the entire country and the unified Western response may serve as a red flag to military adventurism.
    — Peter Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 23 May 2022
  • This is meant to deter Chinese adventurism and is a welcome change from Barack Obama’s appeals to Beijing’s better angels.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 19 June 2019
  • Although Biden is planning to talk tough in Geneva, the goal is to ease tensions and establish predictability on both sides by reining in Putin’s adventurism.
    — Brian Bennett, Time, 11 June 2021
  • Human error at time of crisis caused by US adventurism led to disaster.
    — Anton Troianovski, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Jan. 2020
  • The latest outbreak — the scope of which is still unfolding — has led to calls inside and outside of China for better regulations or even an end to this kind of culinary adventurism.
    — Steven Lee Myers, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Jan. 2020
  • That leaves Biden with few options when confronting Putin over his revanchism and military adventurism.
    — Anna Nemtsova, The Atlantic, 16 June 2021
  • The Chinese government rarely passes up a chance to accuse the United States of military adventurism and hegemony.
    — New York Times, 15 July 2021
  • Russia may be run by a despot whose needless military adventurism will result in the death of thousands of Ukranians, but Chelsea’s recent run of success is a net positive.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 25 Feb. 2022
  • As Slate’s Joshua Keating has argued, Russia can engage in a lot of dangerous and disruptive adventurism.
    — Yascha Mounk, Slate Magazine, 5 Jan. 2017
  • On the surface, buying any newspaper in the chronically dismal climate for print carries the same air of quixotic adventurism as another Bezos pet project, the search for moon rockets on the bottom of the ocean.
    — Marcus Wohlsen, WIRED, 5 Aug. 2013
  • Ahmed thus tracks the spear backwards from the wound: first showing us the way the coronavirus hit Asian bodies, then tracking the slow-moving weapon back through dangerous workplace exposures, and further back to American adventurism.
    — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 20 Feb. 2021
  • So goes the ethos of Kisawa, a retreat radical in both its remoteness and freedom, where attentiveness is balanced with adventurism.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 17 June 2022
  • For us, Russian greatness is not tied to geopolitical adventurism or threats, but to prosperity and openness.
    — Quartz Contributor, Quartz, 2 Mar. 2022
  • In his view, decades of overseas military adventurism has only cost the country enormous blood and treasure, and waiting for deals would prolong a national disaster.
    — Peter Baker, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2019
  • When the pact destroyed fragile alliances and encouraged German adventurism, war was certain.
    — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Mr Trump is hardly the first American president to grumble about Chinese trade practices or Russian adventurism.
    — The Economist, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Finally, Russia must be told that further military adventurism will lead to its expulsion from the Swift banking system.
    — Adrian Karatnycky, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2018
  • Vietnam has been among the most vocal Southeast Asian nations in denouncing China’s maritime adventurism.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Given the danger that Russia, a state that puts power politics above economic efficiency, would use that leverage as a way to influence the direction of German foreign policy in the event of further adventurism from the Kremlin, this was unwise.
    — Jordan McGillis, National Review, 10 Mar. 2022
  • European leaders should be outraged at China’s Vostok adventurism and reject deeper cooperation with Beijing.
    — Tom Rogan, WSJ, 22 Aug. 2022

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