How to Use manifest destiny in a Sentence
manifest destiny
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For his part, Foles has said the right things about not being set free to pursue his manifest destiny as a starter.
—Bob Ford, Philly.com, 28 May 2018
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Its blue skies are clouded by the specter of the next great territory of manifest destiny: the Internet.
—Vogue, 2 Nov. 2017
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The frontier as a symbol not of manifest destiny but of man’s idiocy?
—Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2018
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This was white supremacy and manifest destiny in action.
—Nick Martin, The New Republic, 1 Nov. 2021
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All the believers in manifest destiny, and the white man’s burden, and a thousand conspiracy theories, going all the way back to Jamestown and Plymouth Colony.
—Kevin Baker, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
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The way past manifest destiny and other colonial-era language can be simple: Be specific.
—Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2020
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Men who arrived in California on the premise of discovery, self-realization, and manifest destiny tilled the arid soil on which his studio was built.
—Hilary Hughes, Esquire, 16 May 2016
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Healing the Klamath means unspooling the bitter legacy of manifest destiny, and returning the river to a more natural state.
—Jeremy Deaton, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2020
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Parts of Rita’s own manifest destiny are bound to rub certain people the wrong way, particularly some of Nicolò’s family.
—James McAuley, Town & Country, 27 Apr. 2022
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Many of the paintings hint at religiosity and manifest destiny.
—Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2022
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Silver often uses the phrase manifest destiny to describe the likelihood of NBA expansion.
—Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 23 Dec. 2022
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To manifest destiny’s proponents, to doubt the inevitability of technological and social progress via the railroad was tantamount to doubting the will of God.
—Ingrid Burrington, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2018
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To many Americans today, the type of manual household labor that Matchar describes seems like a relic of the early United States, of a time of homesteading, westward expansion, and manifest destiny.
—Ashley Fetters, The Atlantic, 25 June 2020
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Like manifest destiny, small, independent breweries have spread across the U.S., becoming a coast-to-coast phenomenon.
—Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2017
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Fox has long reinterpreted manifest destiny as a media product, treating the American mind as a vacant space upon which any dream, or any delusion, might be constructed.
—Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 12 July 2021
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Benton, along with many others, used the notion of manifest destiny to systematically displace and kill scores of Native Americans.
—Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2021
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So what have Democrats gotten in exchange for embracing this manifest destiny nationalism?
—Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 10 June 2021
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The song turns a trip down a highway into a meditation on manifest destiny and its contemporary reverberations.
—Justin Curto, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2021
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Buying into manifest destiny, genocide and assimilation which (viewed) the end of tribal cultures as necessary and inevitable.
—Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Nov. 2022
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In mentioning manifest destiny, Trump has resurrected an idea most commonly found in history books.
—Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2020
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In the traditional telling, with its suggestion of manifest destiny, the encounters between Colonial settlers and the original inhabitants lead inexorably and inevitably to the vanquishing of Native Americans.
—Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Dec. 2022
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The far-from-triumphant results of manifest destiny have become ever more obvious: the displacement or extermination of Native populations, the devastation of ecosystems, the faltering of the industries that promised prosperity.
—Jordan Kisner, The Atlantic, 19 Apr. 2021
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Though ultimately discredited following the atrocities endured during multiple years of Nazi reign, eugenic theory was steeped in this sinister view of genetic governance, manifest destiny run amok.
—Jessica Helfand, Scientific American, 13 Aug. 2020
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At 88, Young had guided Alaska’s transformation from an Arctic kingdom colonized by prospectors and military commanders into a pluralistic, oil-juiced experiment in modern manifest destiny.
—Dan Zak, Washington Post, 9 June 2022
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Strivers have taken inspiration from rugged frontier warriors who embodied American individualism, creativity and the quest for manifest destiny.
—Andrew R. Chow, Time, 21 Nov. 2019
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The natural environment with which Native Americans had established a harmonious and symbiotic relationship, was similarly despoiled by the twin logic of expropriation and colonization that spread under the logic of manifest destiny.
—Nicholas Dirks, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2021
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