How to Use extremism in a Sentence

extremism

noun
  • Right-wing extremism is on the rise here and in Europe.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2024
  • For more on the rise of anti-drag extremism, check out the latest episode of Meet the Press Reports.
    Isabelle Schmeler, NBC News, 8 May 2023
  • And the growing threat of extremism in the U.S. military.
    Will Carless, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Many of us who were raised in religious extremism don’t live in our bodies.
    Michelle Dowd, Time, 14 June 2023
  • In the past several years, the former East Germany has seen a resurgence of right-wing extremism.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
  • But the biggest danger for everybody in the end is extremism.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2024
  • The fight against extremism in the region has become a major arena in which the West and Russia have vied for influence.
    Sam Mednick, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 July 2023
  • The tech sector warned that the laws would prevent platforms from removing extremism and hate speech.
    Mark Sherman, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Not doing so will mean the further spread of extremism and antisemitism.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Last August, he was sentenced to 19 years in prison after being found guilty of extremism, which added on to a nine-year sentence for fraud and contempt of court.
    Cailey Gleeson, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
  • For decades, the Berlinale has been committed to democratic values and against all forms of right-wing extremism.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Garcia was terminated from the Army due to health concerns and may have been driven by right-wing extremism, sources told CNN.
    Amy Simonson, CNN, 28 June 2023
  • In a period filled with grim announcements about war abroad and extremism at home, this surely counted as a good day.
    Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 28 July 2023
  • Navalny, who is serving a 19-year term on charges of extremism, was due to appear in court Monday via video link but didn't, spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh said.
    TIME, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The trial also forced progressives to consider how far the fight against right-wing extremism should go, experts say.
    BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023
  • But the therapist finally connected them in 2020 with Parents for Peace, and slowly the grip of extremism started to loosen.
    Kay Lazar, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Apr. 2023
  • The center’s 2021 report on hate and extremism ranked Texas third in the nation for the number of such groups, behind California and Florida.
    Michael Williams, Dallas News, 14 May 2023
  • The center tracks slayings linked to various forms of extremism in the United States and compiles them in an annual report.
    Lindsay Whitehurst, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Schisms emerged inside his own military about how to counter Islamist extremism.
    Declan Walsh, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Whether the Taliban will once again allow Afghanistan to become an incubator for extremism is still an open question.
    Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News, 31 Aug. 2023
  • But the coalition of voters who came out Tuesday gives some Democrats in the state hope that places like Ohio can be competitive again, in a race framed against conservative extremism.
    Rick Klein, ABC News, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Specifics on how the state might prevent radicalization and extremism are scarce in both the bill and the attorney general's report.
    Hannah Ray Lambert, Fox News, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The impact of unemployment in terms of extremism has been particularly high in the past few years, according to the UN report.
    Tristan Bove, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The heads of both agencies are expected to address the issue of domestic extremism in a hearing on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.
    Donie O'Sullivan, CNN, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The AfD poses a threat that many see as singular, both because of Germany’s history and because of the party’s unabashed extremism.
    Joseph De Weck, The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Those kind of beliefs, ugly and untrue, can no longer be considered extreme, or extremism.
    Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2023
  • In August, he was sentenced to 19 more years in a maximum security penal colony on charges of extremism.
    Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 24 Feb. 2024
  • But after coming close to the brink, and with the backlash against Republican extremism, debt ceiling decisions went back to routine.
    Julian Zelizer, CNN, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Nearly two-thirds (65%) of respondents to the ADL survey said game companies should be doing more to support those targeted by hate and extremism.
    Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Will’s extremism is maybe a reasonable outgrowth from circumstances such as these.
    Vulture, 21 Feb. 2023

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