How to Use chauvinism in a Sentence
chauvinism
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That’s when the vitriolic chauvinism seeps through the cracks.
—Jill Gutowitz, Glamour, 2 Feb. 2018
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Even if the chauvinism of the time was dramatized, the Howard Cosell commentary in the movie was real.
—Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 Sep. 2017
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Not that this movie isn't laden with male chauvinism, not to mention plain silly at times.
—Chris Ball, cleveland.com, 8 May 2017
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So, as a not so subtle reminder, here’s your President at peak chauvinism over the course of the past 30 years.
—Esquire Editors, Esquire, 10 Jan. 2018
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Techno-chauvinism on the whole is the idea that machines know how to do things better than humans.
—WIRED, 24 Jan. 2023
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Just look at the chauvinism surrounding the idea of the Beast fighting off Gaston in Belle’s honor.
—Jenna Dorsi, Teen Vogue, 27 Oct. 2017
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People have lambasted the hall for this chauvinism for years.
—Evelyn McDonnell, Billboard, 15 Nov. 2019
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Sexism and chauvinism are on display throughout the book.
—Wesley Morris, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2023
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In the Arctic, English chauvinism led to the death of untold numbers of Englishmen.
—Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2017
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But the Karen, some five million people, chafed against the fledgling government’s chauvinism.
—Hannah Beech, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2020
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The issue is more perplexing now, though, as what might be called pandemic chauvinism emerges.
—Ed Silverman, STAT, 15 May 2020
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The macho chauvinism of ’60s or ’70s rock stars (or of music press editorial boards) doesn’t fly any more.
—John Semley, The New Republic, 18 Nov. 2022
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For this expatriate, who has seldom been accused of chauvinism, the answer would be no.
—WSJ, 1 Oct. 2020
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Even for someone who had grown up in Serbia, where sexism and male chauvinism are deeply entrenched, the blowback was stunning, Stajnfeld said.
—New York Times, 24 Mar. 2021
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In theory at least, Mao was critical of Han chauvinism.
—Ian Buruma, Harper’s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022
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Again and again, though, Marian runs up against the chauvinism and incredulity of male pilots, including an industry just getting off the ground.
—Washington Post, 3 May 2021
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The members of the Freud household were themselves not above various forms of nationalist chauvinism.
—Patrick Blanchfield, The New Republic, 1 Sep. 2022
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Feelings about chauvinism might be more congested closer to home.
—Sharon Mizota, latimes.com, 19 May 2018
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The twin of such populist chauvinism has always been a unique informality lacking in most nations abroad.
—Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 22 Aug. 2019
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Not much of a role model, and certainly not a new culture worthy of replacing the male chauvinism, which still reigns and rages against those who dare to simply report their discomfort.
—Anna Zanardi Cappon, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
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Moreover, as the surge in women candidates also suggests, Mr Trump’s chauvinism may have stirred up Democratic voters across the board.
—The Economist, 17 Feb. 2018
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Both men embody the politics of nationalism, chauvinism and the resentment of elites.
—The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
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So, techno-chauvinism is baked into the systems that influence our day-to-day lives in really important ways.
—WIRED, 24 Jan. 2023
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Teen Vogue became a target of this strain of chauvinism during our coverage of the 2016 presidential campaign and election.
—Lauren Duca, Teen Vogue, 6 Sep. 2017
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That’s when the brunt of chauvinism started, something neither Guthrie nor Vollstedt had predicted.
—Laken Litman, USA TODAY Sports, 26 May 2017
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The field traditionally had a terrestrial bias or what’s sometimes referred to as a surface chauvinism, which overlooks the 70% of the globe covered by water.
—Peter Andrey Smith, STAT, 10 Sep. 2021
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The findings are also a warning against cultural chauvinism.
—Thomas Talhelm, Scientific American, 28 Feb. 2022
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Bomberger’s book leaves one with the uneasy feeling that the First World War encouraged the rise of an American musical chauvinism, one that restricted the polyglot makeup of the nation’s culture at the turn of the last century.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 2 July 2019
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Our great-grandchildren are liable to recognize our chauvinism and wonder.
—Nicholas Frankovich, National Review, 24 July 2021
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That largeness of spirit was of a piece with Liszt’s cosmopolitanism, which resisted the national chauvinism endemic to nineteenth-century music.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
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