How to Use essentialism in a Sentence

essentialism

noun

• People don't want to sit through these struggle sessions with this race essentialism.
  — NBC News, 2 Feb. 2025
• Communities of color have always have to deal with this essentialism when one of our own commits a massacre.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2022
• So there is a whiff of gender essentialism of the Mars/Venus variety threaded through the script.
  — Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com, 11 May 2018
• A lot of our answers came from essentialism, the Plato and Aristotle thing.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2021
• Bud can’t make a joke to his daughters without accidental gender essentialism.
  — Malavika Kannan, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2026
• Tied in with this essentialism is the idea that humans in particular have souls (the mind-body dichotomy), or specific seats of their being.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2013
• This belief in essences, called essentialism, is compellingly intuitive.
  — Lisa Feldman Barrett, Scientific American, 27 Apr. 2022
• Except that among testers who claimed no knowledge of genetics, race essentialism increased nearly 12 percent.
  — Caitlin Harrington, Wired, 2 Oct. 2020
• Kwan’s theory of Chinese identity is marked by a similar tinge of essentialism.
  — Jenny G. Zhang, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2023
• Now Over the years, however, D&D has made only trivial movements away from racial essentialism.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 24 Jan. 2021
• There was also a lot of blather about that season's philosophical earworms, from cancel culture to gender essentialism.
  — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 31 Mar. 2022
• Now, in the shadow of electrification, Lotus’s lo-fi essentialism has become quite chic and collectible.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022
• This is sometimes called psychological essentialism — or seeing your brain function as destiny.
  — Leah Shaffer, Discover Magazine, 2 Dec. 2020
• One of the most important practical applications of essentialism is being able to pivot quickly.
  — Marianella Manzur, Forbes, 6 July 2022
• Such tangible essentialism can give groups a concentrated sense of purpose and meaning—and may be coupled with a powerful urge to persecute members of out-groups.
  — Elizabeth Bruenig, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2026
• On the first level, that idea could be leveraged to get women opportunities to tell some stories, but also to reinforce a gender essentialism that shuts them out of other projects.
  — Alyssa Rosenberg, The Denver Post, 12 Apr. 2017
• The world of Middle-earth betrays forms of paternalism, imperialism, and racial essentialism that have no use today.
  — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 2017
• The Row’s latest collection was so strong, with more color and texture, and less essentialism, while maintaining strong price architecture.
  — Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 29 June 2026
• The essentialism examined in Descarte's Baby is being taken for another spin, though with a more precise focus.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 26 June 2010
• The chinks in the armor are most pronounced in the brief glimpses of Hao’s home life; his wife is a lifestyle coach for women and domestic conversations tend to arc towards tense gender essentialism.
  — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 24 Jan. 2025
• Over the last decade or so, ethnic identity, at least among the internet literati, has been governed by a certain essentialism that holds that culture is biologically ordained by blood.
  — Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2024
• Finally, true believers in racial essentialism have always twisted scientific results to support their views.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 15 Mar. 2023
• In recent decades, though, milk consumption has rapidly declined while nutritionists have increasingly come to question milk essentialism.
  — Kenny Torrella, Vox, 31 May 2024
• This has often resulted in perpetuating ideas about racial essentialism rather than questioning how race is constantly constructed.
  — Kerri Greenidge, The New Republic, 14 June 2021
• But in a culture that became more and more ironic and street savvy, and less inclined to the kinds of gender essentialism Chicago promoted, her work’s almost painful sincerity began to count against her.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2023
• More recently, many of these traditions are intentionally expanding to reject ideas of gender essentialism and embrace a range of identities.
  — Alyssa Beall, USA TODAY, 13 May 2023
• Relaying tales of natural women through a supernatural grammar flips essentialism on its head; these accounts offer up feminine bodies and performance at once.
  — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2019
• Doing so re-creates the same gender essentialism, in which certain traits are supposedly masculine or feminine, that Rosalind obliterates.
  — Mike Fischer, The Mercury News, 24 Apr. 2017
• With a writer as talented as Giffels, though, this reader could accept the bromances and the gender essentialism as the prices of an emotionally satisfying narrative.
  — Samuel G. Freedman, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2017
• Throughout the years, different editions of Dungeons & Dragons have reconsidered some of these components of essentialism.
  — Steven Dashiell, Scientific American, 31 July 2024