How to Use pluralism in a Sentence

pluralism

noun
  • He spoke of the benefits of cultural pluralism.
  • She's a champion of pluralism.
  • And not all threats to pluralism are of the same order.
    The Economist, 14 June 2018
  • At least in theory, all of these ideas could light the way to a healthy pluralism.
    Richard Just, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2020
  • The politics of pluralism run, as Raskin likes to note, in his blood.
    Nathan Heller, Vogue, 4 Jan. 2022
  • The Arab Spring, once a moment of eternal hope for freedom and pluralism, rocked the Muslim world in the winter and spring of 2011.
    Fox News, 12 July 2019
  • For now, the center is holding, pluralism is hanging on, and the far right is being held in check.
    E.j. Dionne Jr., The Denver Post, 8 May 2017
  • In allowing greater use of the old mass, Benedict arguably was acting in the cause of pluralism.
    Michael McGough Los Angeles Times, Star Tribune, 22 July 2021
  • Miller, his protégé, whose young career is marked by the same contempt for racial pluralism.
    Jamelle Bouie, Slate Magazine, 7 July 2017
  • In the most skilled hands, this sort of advanced grafting can show off a chef’s restive creativity and grasp of pluralism.
    Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2019
  • The trend around the world is definitely against pluralism.
    K.n.c., The Economist, 19 July 2019
  • The answer to our problems, according to French, and to his friend Madison, is pluralism.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 21 Dec. 2020
  • Yet the Democrats’ task, which is to embrace pluralism as well as diversity, is no less pressing.
    The Economist, 12 Oct. 2017
  • We have been gifted a marvelous experiment in pluralism here in the United States — a beacon of freedom to the world.
    Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 28 Dec. 2020
  • This is no ordinary case of a healthy pluralism at work in a vibrant democracy.
    Gerard Baker, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2020
  • The downside of the pluralism is that everything cycles through so much more quickly and feels so much more expendable.
    Ann Friedman, The Cut, 22 June 2017
  • The Ahmarists don’t want to share the public square with the godless and think the French types are naive for believing that pluralism will ever work for conservatives.
    Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 17 June 2019
  • The same principle of pluralism that applies to minds must also be applied to models.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2017
  • And it’s this right of voluntary association that is the lifeblood of true pluralism.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 21 Dec. 2020
  • The paramount task at Stanford and elsewhere is to restore a culture of pluralism and tolerance.
    Jeffrey Koseff, Washington Post, 8 July 2024
  • On the one hand, our society is based on religious pluralism.
    Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 13 Feb. 2012
  • Folks who hold one vision for our nation embrace this pluralism forecast decades ago.
    Fred Niedner, Post-Tribune, 6 July 2018
  • After Smith won the nomination, the Democrats were clearly the party of ethnic pluralism.
    Jeet Heer, New Republic, 14 Sep. 2017
  • If this happens, Iraq will lose the possibility for a healthy pluralism.
    Alon Ben-Meir, National Review, 25 Nov. 2019
  • But, now, the liberalism and pluralism underlying that sense of comfort in the world was slipping.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2020
  • And, in a surprising turn of events, the memorandum mandates that the entire student body attend a training course so that they can be taught — as if for the first time in their young lives — the values of pluralism.
    The Editors, National Review, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Many are immigrants, adjusting to their new home’s religious pluralism — and some are leaving the church.
    Peter Rowe, sandiegouniontribune.com, 20 Oct. 2017
  • The United States has always grappled with how to promote pluralism and protect its citizens at the same time—and the fight from a century ago was no different.
    Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 6 Feb. 2017
  • The United States has always grappled with how to promote pluralism and protect its citizens at the same time—and the fight from a century ago was no different.
    Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 6 Feb. 2017
  • For Labarre, French media laws — dating back to the 1980s and meant to promote political pluralism — are both obsolete and toothless.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Europe, 3 July 2024

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