How to Use progressivism in a Sentence

progressivism

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  • But the travails here are real and offer lessons for the rest of the country about the uses and abuses of progressivism.
    — Nicholas Kristof, Star Tribune, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Originalism is the stick in the spoke of progressivism.
    — David Harsanyi, National Review, 27 Oct. 2020
  • In the West, some are rebelling by turning against progressivism.
    — Itxu Díaz, National Review, 24 Nov. 2023
  • Voters in the city want out of the suicide pact that is doctrinaire progressivism.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 17 June 2022
  • There is no room for trickle-down progressivism in this movement.
    — Kirsten West Savali, The Root, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, the author, did not have American progressivism in mind.
    — Matthias Oppermann, National Review, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Many of us are tired of these tactics and want to see courts that respect the Constitution, not progressivism.
    — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 11 Mar. 2017
  • This looks like a late-life conversion to progressivism.
    — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Starmer, 61, says his mix of progressivism and pragmatism is the answer to this sense of brokenness.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 8 July 2024
  • Who has the truest claim to progressivism in 2018, when both candidates can credibly grab at the label?
    — Chuck Todd, NBC News, 30 Apr. 2018
  • The mandate extends to Mr. Clooney, whose sense of social progressivism hits a ceiling.
    — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Many of the elite colleges at the forefront of progressivism were founded by Puritans.
    — WSJ, 29 June 2017
  • For over a century, progressivism worked on this project.
    — WSJ, 6 Mar. 2017
  • If progressivism were such an albatross, Brown would have lost in a state that looks more and more Republican by the year.
    — Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 9 Nov. 2018
  • And blacks aren’t moved by his progressivism in a technocratic guise.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 28 June 2019
  • Roosevelt’s progressivism was, in short, one of big businesses and a government big enough to keep them in line.
    — Kyle Sammin, National Review, 15 Oct. 2019
  • But the hard-left McGovern nonetheless sought to preach a new sort of progressivism rarely embraced by Democrats.
    — Victor Davis Hanson, The Mercury News, 5 July 2019
  • And postmodern progressivism, the belief that there are no longer any absolute facts or values, is the way many of us roll these days.
    — WSJ, 8 May 2018
  • Harris was constrained to progressivism by the politics of her state.
    — Christopher Caldwell, The New Republic, 23 Nov. 2020
  • Those six words are a deathless expression of progressivism in 2022.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 25 Mar. 2022
  • The common thread in all four is that nagging pull to the left — to combat President Trump with fearless progressivism even in tough districts.
    — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2017
  • Progressivism, that amorphous explosion of reformism in the early years of the century, had come and gone.
    — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2017
  • In a city that prides itself on its progressivism, the push for justice has, in general terms, enjoyed broad support.
    — New York Times, 1 Aug. 2021
  • Yet their progressivism tends to be of a liberal, permissive sort, and this also has a dark side, sighs one Icelandic MP.
    — The Economist, 30 Oct. 2017
  • Still, there’s a veneer of progressivism to the Schlafly couple that the episode cleverly cuts through about halfway into its runtime.
    — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 2 July 2020
  • The city with a long history of progressivism is moving forward with a plan to remove all gendered language from its city code.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Aug. 2019
  • Publicly, Musk appears deeply committed to the right’s culture war against progressivism in most forms.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2022
  • The way Washington sees it, Bay Area progressivism has been masquerading as fairness for too long.
    — Carly Stern, SFChronicle.com, 30 Aug. 2020
  • And many in the party have remained uncomfortable with the kind of unswerving progressivism that Mr. Sanders demands.
    — Matt Flegenheimer, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2020
  • Comparable tilts could be seen elsewhere, and great was the lamentation: What happened to progressivism?
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 29 June 2024

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