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Recent Examples of nativist
John Rennie Short, The Conversation, 31 Mar. 2026
In 1942, as the government was forcibly relocating and incarcerating Japanese Americans on the West Coast, a nativist group hoped to revoke the citizenship of Japanese Americans born in the United States.
—Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 28 Mar. 2026
Tom Tancredo, a nativist congressman from Colorado, was also in the field, of course, but Tancredo was a crank.
—Suzanne Schneider, The New York Review of Books, 25 Mar. 2026
The wave of arrivals that began in the last decades of the 19th century sparked a range of nativist and exclusionary movements—particularly against East Asians—and considerable anxiety about those deemed too alien to integrate into the culture.
—Jake Lundberg, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2026
As in America, nativist anxieties have accelerated a reactionary political movement.
—Colton Valentine, New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2026
For a local political aspirant seeking to burnish her nativist credentials, the chance to trigger an international incident was apparently irresistible.
—Bobby Ghosh, Time, 18 Jan. 2026
Its rise is partly due to its strong, virulently nativist campaign against immigrants, calling for mass deportation.
—Trudy Rubin, Mercury News, 20 Dec. 2025
Such concerns tend to be either economic in focus (forecasting stark drops in growth and productivity as populations age and shrink) or nativist (fearing that national identities will erode as populations dwindle and countries seek immigrants to make up for shrinking workforces).
—Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 17 Feb. 2026
Adjective
At the latter stages of the transition, aging richer countries now require workers from overseas – but are coming up against a nativist backlash.
—John Rennie Short, The Conversation, 31 Mar. 2026
In 1942, as the government was forcibly relocating and incarcerating Japanese Americans on the West Coast, a nativist group hoped to revoke the citizenship of Japanese Americans born in the United States.
—Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 28 Mar. 2026
Tom Tancredo, a nativist congressman from Colorado, was also in the field, of course, but Tancredo was a crank.
—Suzanne Schneider, The New York Review of Books, 25 Mar. 2026
The wave of arrivals that began in the last decades of the 19th century sparked a range of nativist and exclusionary movements—particularly against East Asians—and considerable anxiety about those deemed too alien to integrate into the culture.
—Jake Lundberg, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2026
As in America, nativist anxieties have accelerated a reactionary political movement.
—Colton Valentine, New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2026
For a local political aspirant seeking to burnish her nativist credentials, the chance to trigger an international incident was apparently irresistible.
—Bobby Ghosh, Time, 18 Jan. 2026
Its rise is partly due to its strong, virulently nativist campaign against immigrants, calling for mass deportation.
—Trudy Rubin, Mercury News, 20 Dec. 2025
Such concerns tend to be either economic in focus (forecasting stark drops in growth and productivity as populations age and shrink) or nativist (fearing that national identities will erode as populations dwindle and countries seek immigrants to make up for shrinking workforces).
—Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
Noun
This undiplomatic tirade went over well in the White House, but marked him as a belligerent nativist abroad and something of an isolationist at home.
—Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 17 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nativist
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Among the participants were socialists, ex-royalists, liberals, feminists, and nationalists.—
Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
4 Apr. 2026
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Encouraged and aided by independent neighbours, Guinean nationalists took up arms in 1962 and after 10 years of fighting expelled the Portuguese from three-quarters of Portuguese Guinea.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
2 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Following the outbreak of COVID-19, bias incidents and assaults against Asian Americans soared to alarming heights as demagogues on the streets and in high office inflamed xenophobic fear and animosity.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Mar. 2026
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Even with an immigrant population of a mere three percent, xenophobic sentiment has been growing in Japan.—
Jeff Kingston,
Time,
15 Feb. 2026
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Sacco knows better than most that political chauvinists of all kinds can point to past moments of injury and humiliation to justify any current cruelty or authoritarian project—an especially powerful appeal when those historical injustices are real.—
Robert Rubsam,
The Atlantic,
18 Dec. 2025
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King’s straight-sets triumph over the braggadocious chauvinist wasn’t much in doubt once the players were on the court, though there was plenty of speculation leading up to the match.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
29 Aug. 2025
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In his remarks at the event, Alvarez said that there is a resurgence of anti-immigrant assaults being seen in the country.—
Jemma Stephenson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Mar. 2026
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But the more familiar two-thirds advantage for the Democratic Party returned following passage of Proposition 187, a 1994 anti-immigrant initiative in California that ultimately mobilized Latinos against Republicans.—
Gary M. Segura,
The Conversation,
23 Mar. 2026
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Jafarzadeh said that the campaign is pitched as a patriotic duty, and the mobilization of civilians helps the regime by both replenishing manpower and occupying members of the public that could otherwise be swept up into future protests.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
4 Apr. 2026
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The values are different now, the lifestyles, the accepted vulgarity, the manners, the view of what’s patriotic and what’s not, the concept of service.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Apr. 2026
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“Nativist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nativist. Accessed 8 Apr. 2026.
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