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
Several schools across the country were targeted with false active shooter reports in August and more than two dozen HBCUs were targeted by bomb threats in 2022, prompting a federal hate crime and violent extremism investigation.
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N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
The online footprint of the 16-year-old who shot two students and then himself at Evergreen High School this week fits into a new wave of online extremism that calls for violence as a way to destroy society, experts said.
—Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 12 Sep. 2025
Gotsch said most issues, including rising extremism and polarization, can be tied back to the lack of competition in Indiana’s elections.
—Marissa Meador, IndyStar, 3 Sep. 2025
Speaking with Variety ahead of the Rendez-Vous, Aubert and Bernard, director Franck Brett and producers Alexandre Charlet and Nicolas de Saint Meleuc discuss the making of the series, the impact of climate change and the fine line between activism and extremism.
—Ed Meza, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
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N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
The online footprint of the 16-year-old who shot two students and then himself at Evergreen High School this week fits into a new wave of online extremism that calls for violence as a way to destroy society, experts said.
—Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 12 Sep. 2025
Gotsch said most issues, including rising extremism and polarization, can be tied back to the lack of competition in Indiana’s elections.
—Marissa Meador, IndyStar, 3 Sep. 2025
Speaking with Variety ahead of the Rendez-Vous, Aubert and Bernard, director Franck Brett and producers Alexandre Charlet and Nicolas de Saint Meleuc discuss the making of the series, the impact of climate change and the fine line between activism and extremism.
—Ed Meza, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for extremism
Noun
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In 1956, long before those flashy rhinestone jumpsuits, the infamous Jungle Room, and all the Vegas excess, Elvis was just a handsome, super-talented guy playing high schools and military bases along the Gulf coast.—
Josh Miller,
Southern Living,
14 Sep. 2025
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Panday plays a convincingly gruff tortured artist alongside Padda’s struggling ingenue, and most of the screen time is devoted to their pairing instead of introducing tertiary excess.—
Proma Khosla,
IndieWire,
13 Sep. 2025
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OneTaste, by centering women’s pleasure, possessed a sheen of radicalism at a moment when feminism and misogyny seemed to go hand in hand.—
Thessaly La Force,
New Yorker,
29 Aug. 2025
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Iran’s Shiite clerical regime viewed the Sunni radicalism of al-Qaeda and its hosts, the Taliban, with deep concern.—
Vali Nasr,
Foreign Affairs,
19 Aug. 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 17 Sep. 2025.
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