boosterism
noun
boost·er·ism
ˈbü-stər-ˌi-zəm 
: the activities and attitudes characteristic of boosters
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Her article asserts that hometown boosterism keeps people from assessing the crime problem accurately.
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Elon Musk’s boosterism about Mars was part and parcel of him getting hundreds of millions of dollars from the U.S. government in space contracts.
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The New Yorker, New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2026
This kind of boosterism—no less evident in Bernard Lewis’s highbrow argument in The New Yorker that Muslims fear modernity than in Niall Ferguson’s entreaties for the Bush Administration to resume the British Empire’s task of civilizing the natives—always seemed bafflingly sterile to me.
—Christine Smallwood, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
Hochul’s nuclear boosterism contradicts it.
—Manna Jo Greene, New York Daily News, 16 Mar. 2026
As a result, market forces and AI boosterism — rather than strategic safeguards negotiated through collective bargaining — are the factors most likely to shape how AI disrupts and embeds itself in the region’s film sector.
—Mathew Scott, HollywoodReporter, 16 Mar. 2026
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The New Yorker, New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2026
This kind of boosterism—no less evident in Bernard Lewis’s highbrow argument in The New Yorker that Muslims fear modernity than in Niall Ferguson’s entreaties for the Bush Administration to resume the British Empire’s task of civilizing the natives—always seemed bafflingly sterile to me.
—Christine Smallwood, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
Hochul’s nuclear boosterism contradicts it.
—Manna Jo Greene, New York Daily News, 16 Mar. 2026
As a result, market forces and AI boosterism — rather than strategic safeguards negotiated through collective bargaining — are the factors most likely to shape how AI disrupts and embeds itself in the region’s film sector.
—Mathew Scott, HollywoodReporter, 16 Mar. 2026
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“Boosterism.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boosterism. Accessed 31 May. 2026.
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