How to Use social conservatism in a Sentence
social conservatism
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But the rise of looksmaxxing and the return to social conservatism are both reactions to the same set of conditions.
—Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 19 Jan. 2026
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Critics on the left see Hawley’s efforts as a pose, especially given his staunch social conservatism.
—Niall Stanage, The Hill, 31 Aug. 2025
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The basic idea was freedom from government; the legs, Field writes, were social conservatism, free-market economics, and anti-Communism.
—Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2025
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By the 1980s, Barry Goldwater, once the avatar of the Republican far right, was seen as a libertarian critic of the party’s social conservatism.
—Max Boot, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2025
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But Black success provided ammunition to the Fusion coalition’s opponent, the North Carolina Democratic Party—the home of states’ rights and social conservatism.
—Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 3 July 2026
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