How to Use siege mentality in a Sentence
siege mentality
noun
- Living in a high-crime area can create a siege mentality.
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The intent was to create a siege mentality that feeds into the Kremlin’s central theme: The West wants to bring Russia to its knees.
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Markus Ziener,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Mar. 2022
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The shirts, born, in some cases, from a siege mentality, represent our past.
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Georgea Kovanis,
Detroit Free Press,
12 Sep. 2017
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And so, in the age of Trump, police and the institutions that represent them continue to double down on their siege mentality.
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Sarah Jaffe,
New Republic,
1 Sep. 2017
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Who but a small minority would want to organize life around a siege mentality?
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Renee Diresta,
WIRED,
28 July 2019
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Cities may adopt a siege mentality to the environment while being deeply reliant upon it for survival.
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Darran Anderson,
The Atlantic,
24 Aug. 2020
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The siege mentality is exploited and fanned by the authorities.
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The Economist,
14 Dec. 2017
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Rather than dwell on the unrest and surrender to a siege mentality, Afghans attempt to create a semblance of stability by devoting their attention to the day at hand.
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Martin Kuz,
The Christian Science Monitor,
29 Apr. 2020
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Jewish Caricatures The attacks have also brought out a siege mentality among some of his most ardent supporters.
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Thomas Penny,
Bloomberg.com,
4 Apr. 2018
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For some career professionals, a siege mentality has taken hold.
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Sharon Lafraniere, Katie Benner and Peter Baker,
New York Times,
3 Feb. 2018
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Maxwell and Shields have a good appreciation for the psyche of bitter white Southerners — formed by defeat in the Civil War and nurtured by a siege mentality in which the enemy became the federal government.
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Curtis Wilkie,
Washington Post,
16 Aug. 2019
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Amid a rash of burglaries this year — brazen, sometimes shockingly crafty invasions — residents are adopting a siege mentality.
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Megan Cassidy,
SFChronicle.com,
24 Dec. 2020
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And as the mask of neutrality slips, a siege mentality is taking hold, signaling a return to the early days of explicitly partisan and ideological policing.
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Sam Adler-Bell,
The New Republic,
20 Oct. 2020
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