How to Use alt-right in a Sentence
alt-right
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Here’s what your car says about your politics The alt-right economy is failing.
—Daryl Collins, Fortune, 23 June 2023
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Because there’s lots of memes from what used to be the alt-right, where people would Photoshop his head onto Julius Caesar’s body.
—Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2023
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Von Nukem was seen in two famous photos of the alt-right rally, wearing a black shirt in a large group of men chanting and holding tiki torches.
—Andy Rose, CNN, 16 Feb. 2023
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Attempts to build a new alt-right media ecosystem are similarly landing with a thud.
—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 5 June 2023
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Around the time of the 2016 election, YouTube became known as a home to the rising alt-right and to massively popular conspiracy theorists.
—Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 30 Aug. 2023
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The move was confirmed after West made antisemitic comments during an appearance on the alt-right web show InfoWars.
—Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 30 July 2023
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The pseudonym, Frame Game, posted videos and participated in podcasts and livestreams during the rise of the alt-right following Donald Trump’s election.
—Brandy Zadrozny, NBC News, 6 Oct. 2023
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But on the second day of class this winter, internet trolls spouting alt-right and transphobic language raided those channels, flooding them with images of gore.
—Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
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Something similar could be said about the QAnon conspiracy and other bits of baroque alt-right outrageousness.
—Mark Edmundson, Harper's Magazine, 12 Dec. 2022
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The video chat room was associated online with alt-right and white supremacist movements, and fans decried Doja’s presence in such a space.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2023
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Much of the hard-core alt-right remembers and is vocally bitter about this, but everyone else has largely reached an undeclared yet firm position on the subject.
—Laura Jedeed, The New Republic, 22 Mar. 2023
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Among the alt-right, however, this stance against ethnic identity has earned him virulent criticism.
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 16 May 2023
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Nilay Patel, editor-in-chief of the Verge, compares the dilemma in which Musk finds himself after buying the keys to Twitter for $44 billion to the one faced by alt-right social media companies before him.
—Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2023
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Since then, referring to alt-right or right-wing conservative figures as based has become a sign of approval in online social-media forums like the pro-Trump subreddit, r/The_Donald.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 28 July 2023
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As Gwyneth Paltrow long ago realized, insecurity and just-so stories sell; the most entrepreneurial culture warriors seem to have embraced the Goop model and repackaged it to the alt-right manosphere set.
—Jan Dutkiewicz, The New Republic, 17 Apr. 2023
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Despite this sci-fi plot, the show is set in the very near future, in a world that’s plagued by all too familiar issues, from fights over bodily autonomy to the rise of alt-right personalities and oppressive authoritarian regimes.
—Elaina Patton, NBC News, 3 Apr. 2023
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Related Articles Donald Trump and the alt-right threaten generations of proud American global leadership.
—Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024
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From Facebook conspiracy theorists to viral influencers to government figures, the face of America’s alt-right is increasingly female.
—L'oreal Thompson Payton, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2023
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Martin’s killing and Zimmerman’s acquittal helped ignite social justice movements such as Black Lives Matter, galvanized alt-right advocates around issues of white separatism and ultimately influenced the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.
—Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
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