How to Use Luddite in a Sentence
Luddite
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To not be curious about it would be akin to being a Luddite, or an ostrich with your head stuck in the sand.
—Jeremy Gordon, New York Times, 2023-04-17
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Or is the therapist’s smug Luddite attitude somehow a threat?
—The New Yorker, 2024-08-02
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To be clear, this isn’t a Luddite argument against technology.
—Emil Steiner, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
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As such, in drawing that red line against AI, a tactic that proved so successful, the writers pulled a page out of the old-school Luddite playbook.
—Brian Merchant, Los Angeles Times, 2023-09-25
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Equally foolish would be a Luddite reaction to new technologies or attempts to censor what people can write about themselves or read about the outside world.
—Branko Milanovic, Foreign Affairs, 2011-08-12
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The genie is out of the bottle Despite the possible changes to the labor market, Summers is hardly a Luddite or tech doomer.
—Paolo Confino, Fortune, 2023-11-22
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To most modern peoples the idea would represent a secular analogue to quietism, fatalistic and Luddite.
—Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
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The term Luddite is often used incorrectly to describe an exhausted and embittered populace that wants technology to go away.
—WIRED, 2023-09-28
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At age 18, Ammon made the decision to leave his Amish family and start a life beyond the insular, Luddite community.
—Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 26 Aug. 2025
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Over 200 years after the Luddite uprisings, garment factory workers in fast fashion are still burning to death because of unsafe working conditions.
—Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 2024-01-13
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When an existential crisis hits Adam, a musical Luddite contemplating suicide, his betrothed returns to assist in regulating his ennui.
—Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 2024-02-14
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