as in illiberality
stubborn or intolerant adherence to one's opinions or prejudices
They each accused the other of a form of illiberalism.
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Recent Examples of illiberalism
This is not a drift to illiberalism; this is the beginning of the seizure of democracy.
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Claude Malhuret, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2025
Since the October 7th attacks in 2023, universities and college campuses have become front facing symbols for intolerance, illiberalism, and ideological echo chambers.
—Manu Meel, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
In the United States, the presidential election is shaping up to be a contest between two candidates who have different versions of economic illiberalism.
—Macy Scheck, National Review, 26 June 2024
Hazony’s main project, the National Conservatism conference, has served as a hub connecting various different strands of illiberalism to each other and to power.
—Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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Claude Malhuret, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2025
Since the October 7th attacks in 2023, universities and college campuses have become front facing symbols for intolerance, illiberalism, and ideological echo chambers.
—Manu Meel, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
In the United States, the presidential election is shaping up to be a contest between two candidates who have different versions of economic illiberalism.
—Macy Scheck, National Review, 26 June 2024
Hazony’s main project, the National Conservatism conference, has served as a hub connecting various different strands of illiberalism to each other and to power.
—Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for illiberalism
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The right is being horrifyingly plain in bleating their bigotry, but they’re also lost in linguistic obscurities.—
James Folta,
Literary Hub,
4 Sep. 2025
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But the gifted Argentinian auteur has never tackled the issue as directly as in Landmarks (Nuestra Tierra), a searing and detailed chronicle of murder, bigotry and robbery on a massive scale that also marks the director’s first feature-length documentary.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
31 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The test identifies over 120 allergens, including food intolerances, environmental triggers, and household irritants.—
Kasey Caminiti,
USA Today,
6 Sep. 2025
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This gives your body time to respond if there's an intolerance.—
Lindsey DeSoto,
Health,
4 Sep. 2025
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That — metaphorically and literally — is earned dogmatism, the risk that expertise breeds rigidity in our thinking and decision-making.—
Tim Maurer,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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As the container of our culture’s internal contradictions, including dogmatism and pragmatism, individualism and communitarianism, and Biercean indignation and Emersonian transcendence, hardcore is as American as atomic warfare.—
Chris R. Morgan,
The Washington Examiner,
22 Aug. 2025
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During a hospital stay, Roy’s enfeebled mother fixates on the caste and religious affiliations of the doctors treating her—the sort of thing that will be familiar to anyone who has cringed at a diminished elder’s unfiltered prejudices.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
3 Sep. 2025
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From hiring algorithms that penalize women to facial recognition systems that misidentify people of color, AI is at risk of replicating—and even amplifying—our worst human prejudices.—
Sagar Gupta,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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In that vacuum, Republicans have often ascribed political bias as the motivation without providing concrete evidence to back it up, said Stevenson, the debanking expert.—
Jake Pearson,
ProPublica,
9 Sep. 2025
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The state alleges Alam intentionally selected the church primarily because of his bias or prejudice against the state of Israel or the Jewish faith.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 Sep. 2025
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The film looks at the key role of political cartoons in global democracies, the decline of the profession amid a newspaper industry meltdown and the effects of extreme political partisanship on media and editorial cartooning.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
5 Sep. 2025
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In a statement to CNN, Andrew Nixon, Director of Communications for HHS, said the states moves away from CDC guidance were based on partisanship, rather than science.—
Brenda Goodman,
CNN Money,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Illiberalism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/illiberalism. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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