How to Use boosterism in a Sentence

boosterism

noun

• Her article asserts that hometown boosterism keeps people from assessing the crime problem accurately.
• This past week has been a big one for carbon capture boosterism.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 24 Sep. 2020
• The cloud of boosterism The conventional sports wisdom in Chicago was that the awful Bears would beat the awful 49ers at home.
  — James Warren, The Hive, 4 Dec. 2017
• The mistake the play’s many gay critics have made is in thinking that transformative art should be a form of boosterism.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2018
• Believing its own boosterism, the government failed to see the signs.
  — The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019
• There is nothing wrong with a little New York boosterism.
  — Vulture, 26 Apr. 2023
• Hello, David was the awkward one!), but the catalog's near-religious zeal for dork boosterism is infectious and not to be missed.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 1 Aug. 2005
• That’s not a prediction and it’s not hometown boosterism.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Apr. 2021
• But some of his predecessors said such boosterism of markets from the White House set a dangerous precedent.
  — Michael Crowley, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
• This is rare in the Olympics where local boosterism is the norm, and where the IOC and local officials seldom disagree in public and usually speak in platitudes.
  — Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2019
• Driven by Berlin’s genial boosterism, the Critics Choice Assn.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2021
• Calling out his uneven performance is now in bad taste, as is harping on the grossness of his dogecoin boosterism.
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 10 May 2021
• But its ambitions have also grown to include a certain civic pride, if not outright boosterism.
  — Nicola Chilton, Time, 1 Feb. 2022
• Party members in the summer chose her tax-cutting boosterism over his warnings that inflation must be tamed.
  — Jill Lawless, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Oct. 2022
• The network's Trump boosterism was hard to miss, yet so too was giving up lucrative commentator slots.
  — Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 23 Nov. 2021
• Viewers in the late Soviet era had become accustomed to a heavy lexicon of bureaucratese and boosterism that verged on the absurd.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2019
• After all, restaurant boosterism is part of Michelin’s DNA.
  — Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2021
• The Jeremiah of Southern California — the writer equally hailed and hated for decrying the dark side of the region’s eternal boosterism — has battled cancer for the past five years.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2022
• Their approach is not triumphalist—boosterism and mythologizing were anathema to most of the editors and writers of the guides.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2021
• Throughout the Presidential campaign, The_Donald was a hive of Trump boosterism.
  — Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2018
• Meanwhile, the national trend of boosterism — promoting a city’s image to attract new business or tourism — had come to San Antonio.
  — Paula Allen, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Oct. 2021
• His subjects reflect and amplify his Chicago boosterism, laugh at his jokes (mostly about being Jewish), and often tell stories that make the city and the mayor's office look great.
  — Maya Dukmasova, Chicago Reader, 14 Mar. 2018
• Historians have described this time of selling the sun in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as Los Angeles’s period of boosterism.
  — Tim Arango, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2019
• Covid-19’s massive disruption to the global economy, paired with aggressive boosterism of green tech by the world’s governments, could be a turning point.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 7 Aug. 2020
• The current mayor, 44, drew attention last year for his Twitter boosterism.
  — Karol Markowicz, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2021
• Party members chose her tax-cutting boosterism over his warnings that inflation must be tamed.
  — Jill Lawless, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Oct. 2022
• There can be some annoying groupthink, and the media enthusiasm can verge on boosterism, but NBA Twitter is rarely mean-spirited.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 31 May 2018
• Ryan’s boosterism aside, this new AHCA is still unworkable and, in all likelihood, still unpopular—the original bill was polling at 17 percent.
  — Jamelle Bouie, Slate Magazine, 3 May 2017
• Travis sees synergy between Ruth's shamanic boosterism for the healing power of pot and the corporatized wellness industry's embrace of weed as self-care.
  — Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, 23 Aug. 2017
• The challenges are many, ranging from the future of the College Football Playoff to potential realignment into superconferences to the amorphous atmosphere of name, image and likeness and boosterism.
  — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 28 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 23 Sep 2024