How to Use ableism in a Sentence

ableism

noun

• Whole books have been written about the exact nature and sources of the ableism.
  — Andrew Pulrang, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
• And ableism can warp the instincts and habits of disabled as well as non-disabled people.
  — Andrew Pulrang, Forbes, 18 June 2021
• Mooney’s new book, Normal Sucks, is part memoir, part letter to his children, part call to action against ableism and the cult of normal.
  — Mark Armstrong, Longreads, 18 Dec. 2019
• One simple reason for this exclusion is the power of ableism.
  — Alice Wong, Teen Vogue, 8 Jan. 2018
• Sia used Autism Speaks as advisors to her first film Music, which was widely panned for blatant ableism.
  — Imani Barbarin, refinery29.com, 30 Aug. 2021
• The show depicts her daily life, using the podcast form to explore how ableism manifests.
  — Eric McQuade, The Atlantic, 26 Dec. 2020
• To pretend otherwise is fantasy while letting your ableism fly loud and proud.
  — Steven Aquino, Forbes, 29 June 2021
• There are hundreds of specific choices involved in dealing with the many kinds of everyday ableism.
  — Andrew Pulrang, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2021
• But that’s not the same thing as tolerating ableism, especially when pointing it out has the potential to correct it.
  — Andrew Pulrang, Forbes, 22 June 2021
• Burns' comments before the interview, and the focus on Fetterman's health, sparked accusations of ableism against Burns and the network.
  — David Faris, The Week, 14 Oct. 2022
• According to Bonowitz, factors like ableism and racial and socioeconomic bias in the criminal justice system pose too much of a threat to warrant the use of the death penalty.
  — Kendall Ross, ABC News, 9 Apr. 2022
• Unfortunately, public transit is a perfect sphere for, whether one calls it oversight or ableism, to thrive.
  — Gus Alexiou, Forbes, 26 June 2022
• The long struggle to unlearn ableism may have an unexpected side benefit.
  — Andrew Pulrang, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2021
• Cases like Dr Knight’s limp along without resolution due to systemic sexism and ableism.
  — Nancy Doyle, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
• What does his decision to keep his cancer diagnosis a secret say about our culture’s ableism?
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2020
• As a result, disabled people finally have truly viable choices of how to respond to ableism.
  — Andrew Pulrang, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2021
• Seeing the systemic effects of ableism firsthand exposed just how flawed her thinking had been, and her relationship with her studies began to evolve.
  — Mike Mariani, Wired, 16 Aug. 2022
• The trolls started spamming tags like #gaypride, #ableism, #transsexual, and #depression.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 1 Feb. 2022
• This centers on the leadership of those most impacted to confront casual, structural and systemic ableism in all spaces.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2022
• But ableism doesn’t always fall equally on people with disabilities.
  — Andrew Pulrang, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2021
• The ultimate indication that Jesus’ healings are not mere expressions of ableism comes through the stories of his own death and resurrection.
  — Amy Julia Becker, Time, 16 Apr. 2022
• That is the embodiment of ableism — not seeing past someone’s disability.
  — Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2020
• Activists say that ableism -- the discrimination or bias against disabled people -- is at the root of this disparity and that misogyny puts women in greater danger.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 21 Nov. 2021
• Portlanders need a leader who experiences ableism and will solve many accessibility issues which the city has continued to fail to fix.
  — oregonlive, 24 Apr. 2020
• Much coverage of Fetterman's stroke has focused on ableism, his doctors' reports, the medical opinions of doctors who have not treated him and questions from Oz, who has called on the Democrat to release his full health record.
  — Candy Woodall, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2022
• Following the film's initial trailer debut last November, the singer hit back at critics on social media, many of whom accused her of ableism for casting Ziegler instead of an autistic performer.
  — Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 20 Feb. 2021
• Applewhite warns that ignoring the overlap between ageism and ableism reinforces a dual stigma.
  — Sheila Callaham, Forbes, 27 June 2021
• How does someone with clearly visible and audible disabilities cope with the many forms of frustrating interpersonal ableism that can crop up at any time, in any place?
  — Andrew Pulrang, Forbes, 19 May 2022
• Nor are they being schooled on the intersection of age across other dimensions of diversity, including ableism.
  — Sheila Callaham, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2021
• Lorde's comments rankled a sizable chunk of her Twitter followers, who criticized her callousness and even pointed out that the statement reflected a certain level of ableism.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, chicagotribune.com, 20 June 2017

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024