How to Use gradualism in a Sentence

gradualism

noun
  • Such gradualism has not worked with North Korea in the past.
    The Economist, 4 July 2019
  • This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.
    Fox News, 27 Aug. 2013
  • Who is being served by such gradualism, the shareholder or the customer?
    Dan Neil, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2022
  • The president has instead opted for gradualism, which is a code word for soft-pedaling the sad facts.
    Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 13 May 2018
  • The overwhelming message was of gradualism — both on the rate of economic improvement and the Fed’s own efforts to wind down its era of low interest rates.
    Neil Irwin, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2017
  • Investors and the Federal Reserve may have grown too comfortable with gradualism — raising interest rates at a pace that is not too fast, not too slow, but just right.
    Craig Torres, Bloomberg.com, 11 May 2017
  • But gradualism has given way to wariness in recent weeks, partly thanks to a new series of data points showing that inflation is still high and might stay elevated for some time.
    New York Times, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Mr Macri’s bet on economic gradualism could also be derailed.
    The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
  • This strategy allows Google—now Waymo—to pursue a different kind of gradualism.
    Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 7 Nov. 2017
  • Waymo realized that the key to making this work was a different kind of gradualism: fielding a taxi service that initially would only work on a limited number of streets and weather conditions.
    Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Their goal was the immediate end to slavery, not the tepid and undeniably racist gradualism of the American Colonization Society.
    Bennett Parten, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2021
  • The old diffusion models may be predicated on a level of smoothness and gradualism in historical and social process which are simply not feasible.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 17 May 2011
  • Tactically, a 75 basis-point increase would be a communication shift for Powell who has preferred to telegraph moves in advance and embrace gradualism.
    Molly Smith, Fortune, 13 June 2022
  • Phyletic gradualism seems implausible in light of the genetic evidence.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 23 Dec. 2010
  • Although orthodox economists grumble about Mr Macri’s gradualism, Argentine investors seem to endorse it.
    The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
  • More recently, however, Macri’s gradualism and dependence on international markets to help finance this transition have run into rising interest rates in the United States.
    The Christian Science Monitor, 16 May 2018
  • After nearly five decades in Washington, Biden is an institutionalist, a political leader who believes in consensus and gradualism.
    Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 17 Aug. 2020
  • Such conditions inevitably produce a recognition of the limits of gradualism among conservatives fed up with years of rearguard compromise who desire a proactive rather than an essentially defensive and recessional policy program.
    A. Wess Mitchell, National Review, 2 Apr. 2020
  • Waymo's solution to the safety-verification problem has been extreme gradualism.
    Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 21 May 2018
  • The centre’s commitment to gradualism, pluralism and rationality are no match for populists’ simplistic emotional appeals.
    The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Burke’s focus on the social character of man, from Burke’s thoroughgoing gradualism, and from his innovative liberal alternative to Enlightenment radicalism.
    Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review, 11 July 2019

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