as in excessiveness
belief in and support for ideas that are very far from what most people consider correct or reasonable
political extremism
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Recent Examples of extremism
As early as March 4, 2020, the FBI opened an assessment of Hole for possible adherence to racially motivated violent extremism.
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Tony Cook, IndyStar, 21 Oct. 2025
Some Western observers have seized on reports that certain clans and groups, like the Doghmush and the Shabab, are openly cooperating with Israeli forces, interpreting this as a rejection of Hamas's extremism.
—Bobby Ghosh, Time, 16 Oct. 2025
The rise in extremism, in both parties, is not good for most of the nation.
—Harvey Levine, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2025
We are united in our determination to dismantle extremism and radicalization in all its forms.
—Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
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Tony Cook, IndyStar, 21 Oct. 2025
Some Western observers have seized on reports that certain clans and groups, like the Doghmush and the Shabab, are openly cooperating with Israeli forces, interpreting this as a rejection of Hamas's extremism.
—Bobby Ghosh, Time, 16 Oct. 2025
The rise in extremism, in both parties, is not good for most of the nation.
—Harvey Levine, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2025
We are united in our determination to dismantle extremism and radicalization in all its forms.
—Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for extremism
Noun
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For Jay Gatsby, a man of immense wealth and few scruples, almost nothing is beyond his voracious appetite for excess.—
David Lyman,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
30 Oct. 2025
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Saraceno explained that there is commonly an excess of huskies in shelters.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Oct. 2025
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Zinn was a professor at Spelman College in the early and mid 1960s but was eventually fired after clashes with the school's administration over his own radicalism.—
Peter D'Abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
23 Oct. 2025
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Royalist émigrés began to trickle back into the country in 1795, and a number of Jacobins who renounced their earlier radicalism were also reintegrated into civil society.—
Time,
Time,
21 Oct. 2025
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When prompt instructions encouraged models to maximize rewards or hit specific financial goals, irrationality increased.—
Jesus Mesa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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This irrationality, which is especially difficult to model, often boils down to computational constraints.—
John Werner,
Forbes.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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“Extremism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extremism. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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