How to Use opportunism in a Sentence

opportunism

noun

• To Arai, all this smacked of opportunism and hypocrisy.
  — Esther Wang, Curbed, 17 Dec. 2021
• The embrace of hazy IPA may smack of opportunism, but Dubovick doesn't care.
  — Josh Noel, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2017
• Oregon stabbed many in the back with its move and took opportunism to a slimy no-trust extreme.
  — Ndaschel, oregonlive, 8 Aug. 2023
• Has Qatar’s opportunism – trying to play so many sides – come back to haunt it?
  — Jen Kirby, Daily Intelligencer, 11 June 2017
• Williams has shown a knack for patience and opportunism.
  — Chadd Cripe, idahostatesman, 14 Dec. 2017
• This isn’t just opportunism, a shot at grabbing street space while most cars are parked.
  — Alex Davies, Wired, 13 Apr. 2020
• Masayoshi Son’s keen sense of opportunism has allowed him to pull off some of his biggest deals to date.
  — Tim Culpan | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2019
• There was more than a little opportunism here: The league would save clubs like Real Madrid.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 23 Apr. 2021
• There has been much talk of double standards, opportunism, hypocrisy and all of the things that make politicians rather easy to call out.
  — Mark Leibovich, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2021
• This opportunism is matched by a more overt sense of ambition.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2023
• And the concept that baseball can take us away from that is a false narrative at best and crass opportunism at worst.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 4 July 2020
• The crime and opportunism that often follow big storms has been a notable non-factor, at least for now.
  — Tamara Lush, The Seattle Times, 6 Sep. 2017
• The crime and opportunism that often follows big storms has been a notable non-factor, at least for now.
  — Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2017
• Sometimes there’s an unavoidable whiff of opportunism in the air.
  — Nell Beram, New York Times, 2 July 2018
• In Makowsky’s telling, the Roslyn scandal wasn’t a simple case of opportunism, greed, or even, as suggested in the movie, sociopathy.
  — Holly Ojalvo, Quartz, 22 Apr. 2020
• Some women who waited years to speak out were accused of opportunism.
  — Arno Pedram, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2020
• There is an unmistakable sense of opportunism in the air, and a touch of imagination.
  — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 18 July 2019
• Some of this cultural cross-pollination, of course, had the stench of opportunism.
  — New York Times, 27 Aug. 2019
• But if the British leader attempts to play both sides out of opportunism, the U.S. president’s search for middle ground is born of pragmatism.
  — Washington Post, 10 June 2021
• For the same reason that motivates most of Putin's actions: opportunism.
  — Eliot Borenstein, CNN, 28 Mar. 2022
• Political opportunism was a big impetus for the speech, said two of the people.
  — Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2022
• So its push to sell gas to desperate buyers overseas isn’t just opportunism.
  — Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 11 Aug. 2022
• The opportunism has put some local governments on guard.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 10 Aug. 2017
• Benson advocates opportunism: survivors may need to scrounge and steal, poach game, trap muskrats.
  — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2021
• The Republicans could resume their opportunism over the deficit should the economic winds turn.
  — Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2021
• Consumers, too, have taken a hit as the culls contribute to soaring egg prices, though that may be due in part to opportunism from egg suppliers.
  — Melody Schreiber, The New Republic, 21 Feb. 2023
• The economics of opportunism is obvious at every stage in this great shift.
  — Marilynne Robinson, The New York Review of Books, 27 May 2020
• This may sound like naked opportunism in the midst of a campaign, but gun control has been the through-line of Feinstein's political career.
  — Seema Mehta, latimes.com, 28 Mar. 2018
• For those who haven’t recognized the callous opportunism inherent to Donald Trump and his cronies, perhaps The Penguin’s putrid embodiment of those traits will nudge them closer to seeing one hideous monster in the other.
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2024
• While these endeavors are noble, some worry that the line between activism and opportunism is getting increasingly thinner.
  — Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 17 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024