How to Use extremism in a Sentence

extremism

noun
  • Right-wing extremism is on the rise here and in Europe.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2024
  • For more on the rise of anti-drag extremism, check out the latest episode of Meet the Press Reports.
    Isabelle Schmeler, NBC News, 8 May 2023
  • And the growing threat of extremism in the U.S. military.
    Will Carless, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Today, the state has shown a clear stance against extremism.
    Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 26 May 2024
  • Scare voters with references to the extremism of the Right.
    Matthew Continetti, National Review, 14 May 2022
  • This kind of extremism only serves to harm a child’s chances for success.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Behind the Plot: What does the plot reveal about the prevalence of right-wing extremism in Germany?
    Katrin Bennhold, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2022
  • The Marine Corps changes its rules on reporting extremism among the troops.
    Will Carless, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2024
  • Shouldn’t Democrats have a counterweight against their own brand of extremism?
    Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Among Austin's first acts as defense chief was to order a review of extremism among troops.
    Rachel Looker, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2023
  • The podcast emerged from three years of their reporting on right-wing extremism.
    Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Many of us who were raised in religious extremism don’t live in our bodies.
    Michelle Dowd, Time, 14 June 2023
  • How did extremism move from the outer edge of our discourse to the very center of our politics?
    The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2022
  • In the past several years, the former East Germany has seen a resurgence of right-wing extremism.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
  • But the biggest danger for everybody in the end is extremism.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Today Lysoe spends a lot of his time warning young people about the dangers of right-wing extremism.
    Mark Lewis, Star Tribune, 19 July 2021
  • The extremism of the draft has given rise to theories about who leaked it and why—to prevent further edits or to force them?
    Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 8 May 2022
  • Just as much, though, these candidates have struggled with the extremism that is part of the Trumpist package.
    Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2022
  • And what if such extremism is not a bug but a feature of the Republican Party?
    Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2021
  • The film’s villain is the extremism that fuels both factions, led on the grass-roots level by Kurtz and Place’s characters.
    Bethonie Butler, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The fight against extremism in the region has become a major arena in which the West and Russia have vied for influence.
    Sam Mednick, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 July 2023
  • Many of us in Congress have recognized that the scourge of domestic terrorism, and the extremism that drives it, are a threat to the homeland.
    Bennie G. Thompson, CNN, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Here are five takeaways from the hearing, focused on the nexus between extremism and Trump’s attempts to stay in power.
    Amber Phillips, Anchorage Daily News, 12 July 2022
  • There were elements of right-wing extremism tied to the protests around the country, where Confederate, QAnon and Trump flags had cropped up.
    New York Times, 21 Feb. 2022
  • The tech sector warned that the laws would prevent platforms from removing extremism and hate speech.
    Mark Sherman, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2023
  • To paraphrase The Atlantic’s Adam Serwer, extremism is the point.
    Roger McNamee, Wired, 24 July 2021
  • Not doing so will mean the further spread of extremism and antisemitism.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The federal government has called the rise of domestic extremism a lethal threat to the United States.
    BostonGlobe.com, 24 Oct. 2021
  • Young men and boys seem to be especially susceptible to right-wing rhetoric and extremism, and the misogyny that women like Mimi face in the gaming space is a direct result of that.
    Issy Van Der Velde, Rolling Stone, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Shot with technical flair, including a roving long take that opens the action, the film alludes to the violent ethnic conflicts that swept through the Balkans in the 90s, when neighbors turned on each other out of nationalism and religious extremism.
    Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Feb. 2025

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