How to Use syncretic in a Sentence

syncretic

adjective

• But the new syncretic fusion of Judaism and Christianity makes no sense.
  — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 13 June 2018
• Día de los Muertos is one of the great syncretic festivals of Latin America.
  — Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2020
• Here was the syncretic style of old Hong Kong refined for an international audience.
  — Liam Fitzpatrick / Hong Kong, Time, 30 Aug. 2017
• The syncretic religion that melds Catholicism with animist beliefs has no official leader or creeds.
  — Dánica Coto, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 2024
• Action Sharing is an ideas competition for artistic projects that make syncretic use of mechatronic elements.
  — Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 28 Oct. 2010
• Once over his bewilderment, though, Dylan soon surpasses most historians in quickly building a syncretic sense of the whole.
  — Sean Wilentz, The New York Review of Books, 19 June 2021
• Their homes — made of mud brick and stucco, with walls now jagged or altogether missing — stand as monuments to the Draa’s rich, syncretic past and to the enthralling boundlessness of its present.
  — Michael Snyder, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2022
• The film ends in a joyful, syncretic reunion—the Nehruvian nation transposed onto the family in the clearest possible fashion.
  — Samanth Subramanian, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2022
• The book is an effortful reference for how New York morphed from a syncretic collection of diasporas into a bland sovereignty of the mega-rich.
  — Amy Rose Spiegel, New Republic, 27 July 2017
• The songs are muscular and syncretic as ever, but the normally peevish rapper doesn’t maintain his trolling energy for the full record, settling into a questioning and pensive pace.
  — Stephen Kearse, TIME, 8 Dec. 2024
• The Alawites are a Shiite offshoot known for their syncretic views and less strict adherence to Islamic dietary restrictions.
  — Brady Knox, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 11 Dec. 2024
• Although Pastor John’s stories and songs seem strange or syncretic, the community of Soulsville responds with enthusiasm.
  — David Wallace, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2019
• For some believers, elements of Catholicism, Voodoo, Protestantism and hoodoo combine into syncretic faith practices.
  — Lauren Nicole Henley, The Conversation, 17 Feb. 2026
• The video is a stunning visual ode to Black Dominican culture that includes footage of syncretic religious customs, hair braiding sessions, and cleansing ceremonies.
  — Pitchfork, 13 Dec. 2023
• On Play Monk, Monk’s songbook presents a jumping-off point for further experimentation with the unknown, an approach both syncretic and forward-looking.
  — Levi Dayan, Pitchfork, 11 May 2026
• At once heartbreaking and unapologetically strange, this is a cross-cultural, syncretic, folksy, razor-sharp narrative about the horrors of grief and the eternal debate over nature versus nurture.
  — Gabino Iglesias, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2023
• The galleries devoted to religious work beg for a survey of syncretic spiritual imagery and the fluid lines between Christian and African religious representation.
  — Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2022
• Possessed of a daringly syncretic musical intelligence, Rosalía has inhaled flamenco.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2019
• Solo Cissokho—another customer of the monastery’s workshop—began a series of collaborations with folk musicians in Norway and Lithuania, echoing the syncretic spirit of the monks.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2022
• Voodoo refers to syncretic religious practices developed by Caribbean slaves who took spiritual traditions from their native Africa and merged them with elements of Christianity and other faiths.
  — Crimesider Staff, CBS News, 12 Feb. 2018
• On forest walks guided by Vedda elders, visitors can learn about their traditional hunter-gatherer culture and syncretic belief system, in which folk and animist ideas mingle with those of Sri Lanka's younger religions.
  — The Week Uk, theweek, 1 Sep. 2024
• Drawing on Native American, Buddhist and mindfulness traditions, her syncretic spiritual practice is fundamental to her work.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Sep. 2020
• Taiwanese often credit this to their country's syncretic mix of cultural influences, from indigenous groups, to Dutch and Japanese colonizers, to folk practices carried across the Taiwan Strait.
  — The Washington Post, AL.com, 24 May 2017
• Manfred Eicher, who founded ECM and remains its sole proprietor, has forged a syncretic vision in which jazz and classical traditions intelligently intermingle.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2019
• Nance’s photography reveals a common thread between these faiths—which emerged from the dizzying clash of African, European, and American cultures—and the festival’s equally syncretic enactment of pan-African unity.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2022
• Overall, there was immense geographical and cultural diversity amongst Muslims who perceived Islam as cultural—based in syncretic Sufi traditions—rather than political.
  — Nahal Sheikh, JSTOR Daily, 15 May 2024
• Indonesia, the world’s biggest Muslim-majority country, has a constitution that recognizes other major religions, and practices a syncretic form of Islam that draws on not just the faith’s tenets but local spiritual and cultural traditions.
  — Marco Stahlhut, Time, 19 Aug. 2017
• Minority groups, especially Alevi–Muslims, who follow a blend of Shia and syncretic beliefs and make up as much as 25 percent of the Turkish population, are increasingly alienated.
  — Xanthe Ackerman, Foreign Affairs, 23 Dec. 2015
• The collection is distinguished by its synthesis of Islamic, Hindu, and Zoroastrian religious traditions, reflecting the syncretic inheritance of the Akbar-era court.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 Apr. 2026
• Some residents of the Aleutian Islands continue to practice a syncretic combination of Orthodox Christianity and shamanism, Znamenski said.
  — Dan Morrison, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2025