How to Use alt-right in a Sentence

alt-right

noun
  • Here’s what your car says about your politics The alt-right economy is failing.
    Daryl Collins, Fortune, 23 June 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Attempts to build a new alt-right media ecosystem are similarly landing with a thud.
    Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 5 June 2023
  • Already, jurors have heard about the Trump 2016 campaign’s dealings with tabloid publishers, excitable lawyers, and alt-right crusaders.
    Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 3 May 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Any discussion of the intellectual elements of the alt-right should clarify one point.
    George Hawley, Foreign Affairs, 27 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • Among the alt-right, however, this stance against ethnic identity has earned him virulent criticism.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 16 May 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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