How to Use egalitarianism in a Sentence

egalitarianism

noun

• For those holding the purse strings, egalitarianism is the name of the game.
  — Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2021
• Only once in the history of golf has there been a longer stretch of egalitarianism.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 18 June 2017
• By the 1950s, the American economy was not only the most advanced in the world, but was once more a bastion of egalitarianism.
  — The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019
• Westwater Canyon, where a two-day, 17-mile float on the Colorado River washed away any trace of our drift from egalitarianism.
  — Sunset Magazine, 28 July 2022
• The beauty of the Spurs’ bubble ball approach lied in its egalitarianism.
  — Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 6 Dec. 2020
• The only hope for a better life lies in an idyllic island in the Atlantic Ocean, known as the Offshore, where abundance and egalitarianism reign.
  — Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2017
• On the other, the varied aims of Black and Native peoples (and those who were both) ran up against those of white settlers who refused to accept even a whiff of racial egalitarianism.
  — Philip Deloria, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
• While trafficking in rhetoric of unity and egalitarianism, Gantz is careful not to come off as too dovish.
  — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2019
• My partner calls his parents by their first names, which was a decision made decades ago in the spirit of egalitarianism.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 24 June 2023
• Or, in some cases, the team members buy the pretense of egalitarianism and then are enraged when the boss makes a decision that is at odds with their position.
  — Prudy Gourguechon, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
• In a nod to rising egalitarianism, women now make a covenant to obey God directly.
  — Caroline Kline, The Conversation, 14 Dec. 2021
• In other words, the most radical goal of the movement is egalitarianism.
  — Gloria Steinem, Time, 5 Mar. 2020
• Nor did Lee’s defeat lead to an embrace of racial egalitarianism.
  — Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 4 June 2017
• Overcome by egalitarianism, David invites a couple of homeless people into the store to share in its riches, which adds an element of chaos as the night wears on.
  — J.r. Jones, Chicago Reader, 7 Sep. 2017
• In its place, Propst thought, egalitarianism and creative discourse among co-workers would reign.
  — Richard Cooke, The New Republic, 4 Jan. 2021
• Later, Dimitry’s wife, in a show of faux egalitarianism, makes a resistant crew member get into the hot tub, mid-shift.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2022
• To Mary Pete this is simple egalitarianism and freedom of choice.
  — Dale Peck, The New Republic, 12 July 2019
• Luttwak and Shamir argue that the debacle of 1973 reinforced the IDF’s culture of egalitarianism.
  — Shashank Joshi, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
• But this tournament, the first with 32 teams, has been a rollicking display of egalitarianism.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2023
• After all, egalitarianism is very Icelandic, as is a viking-like endurance against the elements.
  — Mosha Lundström Halbert, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2021
• But also, there’s a kind of twisted egalitarianism to Larry’s bile.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• Then the economy began to unravel, enabling the rise of Hugo Chávez and his wayward egalitarianism.
  — Simran Sethi, Washington Post, 24 July 2019
• Anathema to much of the white South and to its allies in the North, Lincoln frustrated abolitionists who were more advanced than he on freedom and egalitarianism.
  — Jon Meacham, Time, 12 Oct. 2022
• His discomfort with the process — and decades spent listening to calves cry out for their mothers — ultimately led Mr. Gerdes to quit the dairy business and adopt a policy of total egalitarianism for all the species calling the farm home.
  — Melissa Eddy, New York Times, 10 July 2021
• By rewarding the semi-random contributor of the arrow, the Ju/’hoansi kept their most talented hunters in check, in order to defend the group’s egalitarianism.
  — Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2020
• But in the name of humane egalitarianism, the Mars critics would swap out the alleged narcissism of wealthy visionaries for their own even more narrow and covetous egomania.
  — James Poulos, Orange County Register, 29 Apr. 2017
• Once, the United States claimed egalitarianism as a central ideal.
  — Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic, 12 July 2018
• In the spirit of egalitarianism, producers gave their Hall H audience an opportunity to be in the film.
  — Diane Bellcolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 July 2022
• The Kardashians’ arrival inevitably signals a messy American egalitarianism, which may be the only good thing about them.
  — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 3 July 2014
• His sense of egalitarianism is testament to his cogent understanding of functions in a team – not everyone can be a sharpshooter, yet roles like cooks and mechanics are equally indispensable in the mechanics of overall mission success.
  — Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024