Examples of doublethink in a Sentence
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With echoes of Orwell’s classic novel, 1984, the film illustrates the power of truth-twisting doublethink of media and government in totalitarian regimes.
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Matthew Carey, Deadline, 31 July 2025
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.
—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
This month, Beijing is marking a half-century since the start of the Cultural Revolution with an act of Orwellian doublethink.
—Nick Frisch, Foreign Affairs, 17 May 2016
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Matthew Carey, Deadline, 31 July 2025
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.
—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
This month, Beijing is marking a half-century since the start of the Cultural Revolution with an act of Orwellian doublethink.
—Nick Frisch, Foreign Affairs, 17 May 2016
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“Doublethink.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doublethink. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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