How to Use nonideological in a Sentence

nonideological

adjective
  • Samuelson is a writer who learns a lot and imparts this learning to readers, in a fairly nonideological way.
    Nr Editors, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Trump was elected as a nonideological anti-politician with a passion for straight, even coarse, language.
    Marc Fisher, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2018
  • Above all, Garland's 25 years on the D.C. Circuit established his reputation as a smart, centrist, nonideological legal thinker — a straight shooter who acted on the basis of principle and the rule of law.
    Star Tribune, 7 Jan. 2021
  • One problem revealed by this episode is the liabilities of a presidency held by a nonideological figure, a goal of good-government types.
    Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 19 July 2017
  • Inside our best think tanks and journals on both right and left, plenty of brilliant thinkers do grownup policy work in precisely this spirit of nonideological practicality.
    Daniel E. Burns, National Review, 23 Jan. 2020
  • Moreover, in contrast to these earlier Islamist groups, the Sadrists were, from their inception in the 1990s, nonideological with no clear vision of an Islamic state, constitution or economy.
    Benedict Robin, Washington Post, 7 June 2018
  • Broader nonideological reforms of the health-care system.
    Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 19 July 2017
  • Republicans are also controlled by the primary voters, but in endorsing Trump, the new Republican base set the party on a nonideological course.
    Kyle Sammin, Washington Examiner, 12 Nov. 2020
  • That used to be an uncontroversial and nonideological point.
    Adam Liptak, New York Times, 30 June 2018
  • Most Trump supporters are conservatives, even if there is a base of more complicated, nonideological, do-something voters.
    WSJ, 15 Sep. 2017
  • And this does not even include the increasing number of ostensibly nonideological mass shooters who fit a now well-known profile: angry white men, often with histories of domestic abuse, who enjoy unfettered access to firearms.
    The Rev. Michael McBride and Dr. Antonio Cediel, The Root, 26 Feb. 2018
  • Meacham is a nonideological historian and McGraw is a country star, two professions that were built for caution, something McGraw occasionally takes to excess.
    Allison Stewart, chicagotribune.com, 11 July 2019
  • The director, Ivan Reitman, had unusually conservative leanings for Hollywood, but Reagan himself seems to have had a nonideological good time watching the movie.
    Thomas Mallon, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2018
  • In 2014 the Democratic nominee campaigned as a nonideological centrist.
    Aaron Zitner, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2018

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