Examples of doublethink in a Sentence
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In short, social media – the primary source of news for millennials and Gen Z — has spawned an inversion of reality, a huge dose of doublethink.
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Barth Keck, Hartford Courant, 31 May 2024
George Orwell labeled the ability doublethink or indoctrination.
—Andy Kessler, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2022
For weeks, people in Ukraine, and some people in Russia, have been stuck in the purgatory of doublethink.
—Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2022
There’s a convoluted doublethink necessary to be a woman demanding power and a degree of liberty while working on behalf of a religious framework that doesn’t support either.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2021
The doublethink created by this language exasperates Carl Hart, a professor of neuroscience at Columbia University.
—Mike Jay, The New York Review of Books, 5 Nov. 2020
Emirati officials appear to reject the doublethink on Israelis and Jews that is prevalent in Egypt and Jordan.
—Dore Feith, National Review, 3 Dec. 2020
There’s a tricky bit of doublethink to this argument.
—Constance Grady, Vox, 30 July 2019
In an atmosphere of freedom — namely, Britain’s — they, too, were experiencing doublethink.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 8 July 2019
Barth Keck, Hartford Courant, 31 May 2024
George Orwell labeled the ability doublethink or indoctrination.
—Andy Kessler, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2022
For weeks, people in Ukraine, and some people in Russia, have been stuck in the purgatory of doublethink.
—Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2022
There’s a convoluted doublethink necessary to be a woman demanding power and a degree of liberty while working on behalf of a religious framework that doesn’t support either.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2021
The doublethink created by this language exasperates Carl Hart, a professor of neuroscience at Columbia University.
—Mike Jay, The New York Review of Books, 5 Nov. 2020
Emirati officials appear to reject the doublethink on Israelis and Jews that is prevalent in Egypt and Jordan.
—Dore Feith, National Review, 3 Dec. 2020
There’s a tricky bit of doublethink to this argument.
—Constance Grady, Vox, 30 July 2019
In an atmosphere of freedom — namely, Britain’s — they, too, were experiencing doublethink.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 8 July 2019
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“Doublethink.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doublethink. Accessed 26 Jul. 2024.
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