ideological
adjective
ideo·log·i·cal
ˌī-dē-ə-ˈlä-ji-kəl 
ˌi-
variants
or less commonly ideologic
ˌī-dē-ə-ˈlä-jik
ˌi-
1
: of, relating to, or based on ideology
2
: relating to or concerned with ideas
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Worse, the conservative justices of the Supreme Court appear not to realize that, in a war, internal disagreements and ideological agendas must be set aside in the service of unity in the struggle.
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Noah Feldman, Twin Cities, 24 Dec. 2025
Though many of these cases are framed as civil justice for people who’ve been harmed, and there are legitimate cases that deserve a fair day in court, the most high-profile clashes are more often ideological pursuits that go far beyond the law.
—Yael Ossowski, Oc Register, 23 Dec. 2025
More than a dozen employees at the Heritage Foundation left their posts over the weekend amid widening ideological rifts within the conservative movement and escalating internal tensions at the influential think tank.
—Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 22 Dec. 2025
With hostility to vaccines on the rise, the risk exists that VAERS will be increasingly hijacked for political or ideological purposes, experts say, turning what was designed as a way for epidemiologists to look for problems with vaccines into a tool for misinformation.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 22 Dec. 2025
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Noah Feldman, Twin Cities, 24 Dec. 2025
Though many of these cases are framed as civil justice for people who’ve been harmed, and there are legitimate cases that deserve a fair day in court, the most high-profile clashes are more often ideological pursuits that go far beyond the law.
—Yael Ossowski, Oc Register, 23 Dec. 2025
More than a dozen employees at the Heritage Foundation left their posts over the weekend amid widening ideological rifts within the conservative movement and escalating internal tensions at the influential think tank.
—Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 22 Dec. 2025
With hostility to vaccines on the rise, the risk exists that VAERS will be increasingly hijacked for political or ideological purposes, experts say, turning what was designed as a way for epidemiologists to look for problems with vaccines into a tool for misinformation.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 22 Dec. 2025
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“Ideological.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ideological. Accessed 29 Dec. 2025.
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