How to Use ideological in a Sentence
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The court ruled 6-3 along ideological lines for the coach.
—Jessica Gresko, Chron, 27 June 2022
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Sinema has, for the last few years, had the same ideological record as Manchin.
—Harry Enten, CNN, 3 Oct. 2021
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The justices split along ideological lines, and the two sides appeared to talk past each other.
—Adam Liptak, New York Times, 30 June 2023
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And so this breaks down along ideological lines for sure.
—Adam Feuerstein, STAT, 26 Sep. 2021
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Their deployments lack the ideological zeal of the foreign legionaries who flocked to Ukraine in the early months of the war.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024
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Some open-seat races in 2024 could also affect the ideological makeup of the House.
—Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 20 Dec. 2023
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That smaller share of the electorate tends to be more ideological than the populous as a whole.
—Boyd K. Rutherford, Baltimore Sun, 22 Dec. 2024
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The large ideological gulf between the senators and the White House makes the agreement a challenge.
—Daniel Desrochers, Kansas City Star, 9 May 2024
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This is exactly the kind of scene that, in another play, could lead to a shouty ideological cage match.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 25 Jan. 2024
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There is no such thing as a voter who will refuse to vote for the Democrats on ideological grounds but who will reward the saboteurs who ensured that the Democrats won.
—Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 12 Oct. 2021
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Eventually, the full court agreed with Mr. Cargill by vote of 13 to 3, split along ideological lines.
—Abbie Vansickle, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
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Weyrich was a kind of Steve Bannon figure, the ideological bomb-thrower behind the scenes.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 Apr. 2024
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Her entry into the Supreme Court race last week set up a four-way race that will determine the ideological balance of the court.
—Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 9 Dec. 2022
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That lack of an ideological center is borne out in other ways as well.
—Chris Cillizza, CNN, 30 Sep. 2021
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Of course, no World Cup has been immune to the ideological and political battles of the day.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2022
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This year, the court voted along ideological lines in 21% of cases.
—Bynadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2022
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Kennedy became the new ideological center of the court.
—Jessica Gresko, ajc, 27 Jan. 2022
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That’s why we were sent to Washington, D.C., not to make an ideological point, but to make a difference.
—ABC News, 17 Sep. 2023
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In a letter to Shapps, the union accused him of waging ideological war against rail workers.
—Reuters, CNN, 19 Aug. 2022
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The ecosystem has become a lot less ideological over time.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 3 Aug. 2023
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Never mind that this is the same ideological movement that’s always talking about free speech — the hypocrisy is nothing new.
—Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 20 July 2023
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But with so many potential ideological flips on the horizon, that’s not always the case.
—Barnini Chakraborty, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 1 Mar. 2025
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The ideological preferences of these judges establish binding precedents for their states and help shape the law of the nation.
—Jeffrey Toobin, The New York Review of Books, 15 Feb. 2024
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As has been the case with so many recent disputes, the Supreme Court appears sharply divided along ideological lines on the issue.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 18 Jan. 2024
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The desire to give less affluent Americans the chance to build a decent nest egg is one that is shared across ideological lines.
—Michael Steinberger Malcolm Hillgartner Tanya Pérez Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 8 May 2024
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The rulings, both 6-3 along ideological lines, held that the programs violate the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
—Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 June 2023
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And with that gone, the people who voted against Trumpism for ideological reasons might still come out.
—Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2021
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One of his biggest ideological pet peeves, the repeal of Section 230, can only be changed by an act of Congress.
—Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2025
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As the conservative right makes motherhood its ideological stronghold, the left risks ceding not just the narrative, but the cultural and political power that comes with it.
—Samantha Mann, Time, 5 June 2025
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The unifying principle is ideological loathing of the defendants.
—Jason Isaac, Oc Register, 4 June 2025
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