How to Use cancel culture in a Sentence
cancel culture
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To hell with their feelings—cancel culture is here to stay.
—Ernest Owens, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2023
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Hmm:Is this the way to sidestep 'cancel culture' and be friends with everyone?
—David Oliver, USA TODAY, 17 May 2023
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Speaking of that, this era of cancel culture is a pretty daring time to be in a band like Steel Panther.
—Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 28 July 2023
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Some rap fans see West as a roguish outlaw who beat cancel culture.
—August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
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In his view, cancel culture itself may have been a phenomenon of the Covid era.
—Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2024
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So not only is there cancel culture, but there are culture wars.
—Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2023
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Before there was cancel culture, there was the kind of disapproval that only made Springer stronger.
—Paul Farhi, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
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The antidote to 'cancel culture':Is this the way to sidestep 'cancel culture' and be friends with everyone?
—David Oliver, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2023
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As for cancel culture, Melissa says her mom would have fought against it, especially for comics.
—Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 21 Jan. 2024
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Meanwhile, the singer has been complaining about cancel culture.
—Vulture, 24 July 2023
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Field doesn’t delve deep enough into Lydia’s viewpoint for Tár to work as a commentary on cancel culture.
—Hazlitt, 22 Feb. 2023
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Today's era of cancel culture doesn't always allow for that.
—David Oliver, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024
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In 2023 the United States is trapped between tribalism and the fear of retribution from cancel culture.
—Eric Fuller, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
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Meanwhile, there’s a whole new pandemic in town as the crew explores the future of vaccines, bitcoin, cancel culture, and streaming TV.
—Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2023
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Yet others have challenged the notion that cancel culture is a legit social movement.
—James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Aug. 2023
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And much of his one hour, five minute set centered on clapping back at how he’s perceived, dealing with cancel culture, and his views on sexuality and gender roles.
—Stefan Stevenson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Jan. 2024
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Arbitrary rules, doxing practices, and cancel culture have led to something hard to distinguish from censorship for the sober and well-meaning.
—Jaron Lanier, WIRED, 13 Feb. 2024
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Tang points to recent cancel culture examples like Amber Heard.
—Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 3 May 2023
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The story Colomby told him that day turned into a compelling documentary that serves as the perfect glimpse into the roots of today’s cancel culture in an incident that took place 53 years ago.
—Roy Trakin, Variety, 31 Mar. 2023
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In the Dark Age of cancel culture, the un-self-conscious behavior and unpoliced thoughts of a private citizen are underrated.
—Brenda Cronin, WSJ, 29 Oct. 2023
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In this and a dozen other ways, the timeless-looking film engages with up-to-the-minute ideas, from cancel culture to going viral, ultimately revealing itself to be a sly social satire.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 10 Sep. 2023
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In fact, Paul has been personally involved in so many controversies that the YouTube star might be living proof that cancel culture doesn’t exist — or a least has no financial impact on the lives of the rich and famous.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 11 July 2023
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The backdrop of the war on ethnic studies and critical race theory frames efforts to end the U.S. Department of Education as part of a cultural war and a cancel culture.
—J. Luke Wood, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2023
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People should be free to express their opinions without becoming targets of cancel culture.
—Les Borsai, SPIN, 1 Nov. 2023
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The funny thing about the concept of cancel culture is that its popularization coincided with the demise of the mechanisms through which a person might truly be exiled from public life.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 18 Mar. 2024
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Victimhood is their rallying cry; their tool is red state legislative cancel culture.
—Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2023
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The fear and outrage surrounding cancel culture came mostly from the right, and for good reason: It was led by people who wanted a right (and a right to a platform) to verbally abuse transgender people specifically.
—Brynn Tannehill, The New Republic, 14 June 2023
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Murphy argued that Lindell was booked on Carlson’s program to discuss cancel culture after being banned from Twitter.
—Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2023
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What recommends the film to people who might otherwise care little about the rarefied world of orchestral music is its timely and sober treatment of the #MeToo era, cancel culture and identity politics.
—Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2023
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In the spring of 2014—in retrospect, the dress rehearsal for cancel culture—some commencement speakers around the country were disinvited or withdrew themselves from consideration owing to left-wing protests.
—Mary Eberstadt, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2023
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