How to Use progressivism in a Sentence

progressivism

noun
  • Since then, she’s built a national brand as a fierce voice for progressivism.
    Mike Lillis, The Hill, 6 Dec. 2024
  • There is no room for trickle-down progressivism in this movement.
    Kirsten West Savali, The Root, 13 Dec. 2017
  • And blacks aren’t moved by his progressivism in a technocratic guise.
    Rich Lowry, National Review, 28 June 2019
  • In the West, some are rebelling by turning against progressivism.
    Itxu Díaz, National Review, 24 Nov. 2023
  • Voters in the city want out of the suicide pact that is doctrinaire progressivism.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 17 June 2022
  • Some noted a shift toward progressivism, or a return to more populist roots.
    Alicia Parlapiano, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2024
  • But there’s nothing magic, of course, about freshness or progressivism.
    Bill McKibben, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Harris was constrained to progressivism by the politics of her state.
    Christopher Caldwell, The New Republic, 23 Nov. 2020
  • Today’s woke progressivism, which purports to be antiracist, reveals its own hypocrisy.
    Gil Troy, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Roosevelt’s progressivism was, in short, one of big businesses and a government big enough to keep them in line.
    Kyle Sammin, National Review, 15 Oct. 2019
  • But the travails here are real and offer lessons for the rest of the country about the uses and abuses of progressivism.
    Nicholas Kristof, Star Tribune, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Within its walls, Harvard may well veer toward progressivism, for better or worse.
    Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 13 July 2017
  • In a city that prides itself on its progressivism, the push for justice has, in general terms, enjoyed broad support.
    New York Times, 1 Aug. 2021
  • Many of us are tired of these tactics and want to see courts that respect the Constitution, not progressivism.
    Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 11 Mar. 2017
  • And postmodern progressivism, the belief that there are no longer any absolute facts or values, is the way many of us roll these days.
    WSJ, 8 May 2018
  • Many of the elite colleges at the forefront of progressivism were founded by Puritans.
    WSJ, 29 June 2017
  • Starmer, 61, says his mix of progressivism and pragmatism is the answer to this sense of brokenness.
    Alexander Smith, NBC News, 8 July 2024
  • Those six words are a deathless expression of progressivism in 2022.
    Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Publicly, Musk appears deeply committed to the right’s culture war against progressivism in most forms.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2022
  • Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, the author, did not have American progressivism in mind.
    Matthias Oppermann, National Review, 7 Jan. 2024
  • There's another strain in the book that is liberalism and progressivism causing some of its own problems.
    Edward Felsenthal, TIME, 12 May 2024
  • Progressivism, that amorphous explosion of reformism in the early years of the century, had come and gone.
    Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2017
  • When did progressivism become the only option in Maryland?
    Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 9 Apr. 2026
  • If progressivism were such an albatross, Brown would have lost in a state that looks more and more Republican by the year.
    Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 9 Nov. 2018
  • Companies putting down Atlanta roots say they’re also drawn to the city’s history of progressivism.
    WSJ, 20 Mar. 2021
  • Who has the truest claim to progressivism in 2018, when both candidates can credibly grab at the label?
    Chuck Todd, NBC News, 30 Apr. 2018
  • The mention of environmentalism brings to mind the cultish side of modern progressivism.
    Barton Swaim, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Still, there’s a veneer of progressivism to the Schlafly couple that the episode cleverly cuts through about halfway into its runtime.
    Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 2 July 2020
  • Presidents Clinton and Obama struck major blows for the cause of progressivism.
    Caitlin Yilek, Washington Examiner, 1 Feb. 2020
  • As the title suggests, this means getting back to the kind of fiery progressivism that won Bartlet the White House in the first place.
    Matthew Jackson, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2024

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