How to Use neocon in a Sentence

neocon

noun

• Nicole loves Hillary Clinton; Olivia calls her a neocon.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 11 July 2021
• What turned things was the neocon project to invade Iraq and overthrow Saddam.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
• China, reviving the name of a famous neocon Cold War think tank.
  — Adele M. Stan, The New Republic, 10 Mar. 2021
• Twelve years later, Bush’s son followed the neocons’ bidding.
  — Nina Burleigh, The New Republic, 17 Mar. 2023
• Some of the neocons never abandoned liberalism or the Democrats.
  — E.j. Dionne Jr., The Mercury News, 1 June 2017
• But Fukuyama seems to have finally made a break from the profound cultural pessimism of the Straussian neocons.
  — Win McCormack, The New Republic, 17 Oct. 2019
• This doesn’t have to be the case: Just as liberals who have been mugged can choose not to become neocons, women have political choices to make, too.
  — Laura Kipnis, The New Republic, 5 May 2023
• Bolton was a disgruntled former employee, a neocon, a money-grubber with a two-million-dollar book to sell.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2020
• Nationalists and populists have blackened the neocons’ name.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 28 Aug. 2023
• Krauthammer spent his political youth as a liberal-ish speechwriter for Walter Mondale and ended up a neocon on Fox News.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2019
• Is his American Sniper a hunk of jingoistic propaganda or a mythic deconstruction of the same, neocon pandering or one of the more enigmatic anti-war films to emerge from the War of Terror?
  — Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 13 Dec. 2019
• The radical strain, associated with the neocons, called for a universal democratization, by force if need be.
  — Keith Gessen, New York Times, 8 May 2018
• For too long, the debate has focused on the paleocon and neocon positions, ignoring the question of whether there remains a Republican center on foreign policy.
  — Michael Auslin, National Review, 5 Nov. 2019
• So what is John Bolton: a neocon, paleocon, conservative hawk, or nationalist?
  — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 23 Mar. 2018
• This is the real neoliberal and neocon replacement theory.
  — Armond White, National Review, 3 Mar. 2023
• The non-Never Trump neocon migration to national conservatism was entirely predictable.
  — W. James Antle Iii, The Week, 13 Feb. 2022
• Positioning the United States behind the rest, Trump portrayed America as a humiliated, subjugated dupe—and gave a new, more dynamic rationale to a stale neocon agenda.
  — The New York Review of Books, 2 Jan. 2019
• Kirkpatrick and her neocon confreres overcame their embarrassment at their down-market coalition partners and made the leap to Reagan nonetheless; Kirkpatrick ended up his United Nations ambassador.
  — Rick Perlstein, The New Republic, 14 Aug. 2020
• This article illustrates beautifully the foolish, narcissistic nature of U.S. foreign policy and the neocon thinking that underlies it.
  — Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024