How to Use populist in a Sentence

populist

1 of 2 noun

• Frank’s Truman is a populist in the best sense of the word: not a demagogue but a true man of the people.
  — Beverly Gage, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
• Bolsonaro is a right-wing populist who took office in 2019.
  — Devika Rao, The Week, 1 Oct. 2022
• Bukele, a right-wing populist who rose to power in 2019, announced the plan to start using bitcoin in June.
  — Merlin Delcid, CNN, 6 Sep. 2021
• Trump’s victory in Iowa and the rise of populists in Europe suggest as much.
  — Peter Vanham, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2024
• Gerwig at her best has a true populist feel for how to give the audience pleasure.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 July 2023
• Now, with his approval ratings in steep decline, the far-right populist is again revving up the culture wars.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2022
• The silver-haired populist is trying to reverse course.
  — David Luhnow, WSJ, 4 June 2021
• The incumbent is a far-right populist, while Lula is a leftist.
  — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 3 Oct. 2022
• However, Page is more the populist pick this year and O'Connor the insider favorite.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2021
• In response, Bolsonaro has turned to his populist playbook by trying to stir up his base.
  — Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes, 30 May 2021
• The brash language is not unusual for Duterte, a tough-talking populist who is most known for a bloody war on drugs that has left thousands dead.
  — Washington Post, 22 June 2021
• Macron faces a formidable challenge from the populist right in elections next year.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2021
• The right-wing populist has cut fuel taxes to reduce prices at the pump and sent monthly cash transfers to poor families.
  — Paulina Villegas, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2022
• Bolsonaro, a right-wing populist who won the presidential election in 2018, has long been compared to Trump.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2021
• Elsewhere, right-wing populists are making inroads with a tough-on-crime message.
  — Daniel Politi, ajc, 28 May 2023
• Much to the chagrin of the radical populists on the left and right alike, Trump’s economic policies were, by and large, profoundly banal.
  — Noah Rothman, National Review, 2 Feb. 2024
• Like Duterte, Moreno is a populist, Heydarian said, but one of a different stripe.
  — Ben Westcott and Jinky Jorgio, CNN, 9 Oct. 2021
• Up until this year, the boxer turned senator had been supportive of Duterte, a populist most known for a war on drugs that has left thousands dead.
  — Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2021
• Today, the same question arises about taking power out of the hands of Poland’s national populists.
  — Foreign Affairs, 12 Mar. 2024
• But also like Hungary, that reputation started to sour when far-right populists surged to power in the 2010s.
  — Yascha Mounk, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2023
• Obrador is another autocrat posing as a populist from the Left.
  — Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2023
• Abourezk, dubbed a pioneer populist, left us with the toolbox and templates for justice and social action.
  — Doris Bittarcommunity Advisory Board Member, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Mar. 2023
• But that’s controversial for López Obrador, a populist who doesn’t want to be seen as America’s enforcer.
  — Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2021
• One final note: The populist Paramount does not indulge in Taylor Swift-style variable pricing.
  — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 24 Nov. 2022
• Then, President Nayib Bukele, a young populist, took office in 2019.
  — Anna-Catherine Brigida, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Jan. 2022
• No globe-trotting media darling or populist, Benedict was a teacher and theologian to the core: quiet and pensive with a fierce mind.
  — Nicole Winfield, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Dec. 2022
• This yearly lecture from on high is conceived to show Obama’s smarter-than-a-populist diversions.
  — Armond White, National Review, 22 Dec. 2021
• The idea was both avant-garde and populist, breaking down the hierarchies and theatrical heightening of modern dance.
  — Brian Seibert, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2024
• An extensive survey for the populist think tank American Compass found a stark class divide in how couples think about child care.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 11 May 2021
• Bukele, a forty-year-old former night-club manager, is an abrasive populist who tweets without restraint.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021

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populist

2 of 2 adjective

• At first glance, the pivot to populist rhetoric seems an awkward fit for Sunak.
  — Mark Landler, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Sep. 2023
• The mouse was central to the computer’s populist future, which wasn’t yet assured at the time.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2024
• That idea, prevalent during the populist spring of 2016, has faded since.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2023
• For the past five years, the Socialists have ruled the country in a coalition with Podemos, a populist extreme left-wing force.
  — José María Aznar, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2023
• Both are populist proposals that council might not be able to vote through.
  — Kaitlin Durbin, cleveland, 27 Jan. 2023
• Pavel’s win cements a shift away from populist politics — at least for now.
  — Emily Rauhala, Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2023
• Biden used a familiar populist line from the stump about shifting more cost savings to those on the lower-income side, at the expense of the top 1%.
  — Deirdre Walsh, NPR, 8 Mar. 2024
• In turn, their recognition could honor a populist show that fans rallied for even when its own cast couldn’t.
  — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 15 Dec. 2023
• Chumbawamba’s members want the populist politician to stop all references to the song.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 20 Mar. 2024
• Doyle McManus: Trump’s campaign in 2016 was a populist revolt.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2023
• Pheu Thai, the main opposition party that has been a populist force in Thailand for 20 years, came second.
  — Kocha Olarn, CNN, 11 July 2023
• But the theme of Porter’s Senate campaign sounds more bipartisan and populist.
  — Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Jan. 2023
• Parents and church leaders protested, and politicians seized the populist moment.
  — John Humphrey Agaba, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Aug. 2023
• If anything, the pandemic seemed to act as a brake on populist politics, helping to end both the Trump and the Boris Johnson governments.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
• Currently, the populist faction clearly has the upper hand.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2023
• The rail companies didn’t enjoy the same populist affection.
  — Malia Wollan, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2024
• This predictably frustrates the Right, ramping up populist outrage.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 16 Mar. 2023
• No to the populist demagoguery that Wallace represented, and specialized in (and was so very good at).
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 23 Oct. 2023
• But the new push shows that the political left isn’t ready to give up on the populist argument that government can and should be used as a tool for redistributing wealth.
  — Susan Haigh, Fortune, 21 Jan. 2023
• Food courts, which most of us probably associate with malls, are the ultimate in populist eating.
  — Lucas Kwan Peterson, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2023
• The third thing is that Democrats have everything to gain by more forthrightly pushing a populist economic agenda that goes even further than Biden.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 23 Feb. 2023
• Nonetheless, after eight years of populist rule that hardened the battle lines of Polish politics, much of the public is spoiling for a fight.
  — Rob Picheta, CNN, 27 Jan. 2024
• There are plenty of right-wing populist leaders around the world who support the Jewish state of Israel despite not being Jewish themselves.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
• But twenty-dollar seats still qualify the event as a populist endeavor.
  — The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2023
• Critics of Poland’s populist government have accused it of ramping up a fear campaign ahead of crucial elections this fall.
  — Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2023
• Instead, Hawley has been leading the effort to reshape the Republican Party to look more like Trump’s populist base.
  — Daniel Desrochers, Kansas City Star, 29 Feb. 2024
• There was a migration and refugee crisis in the West, and populist parties with nativist platforms were winning elections across Europe.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2023
• The cult of Bukele is part of a recent surge of populist outsiders worldwide and reflects the degree to which crime has become a major anxiety across Latin America.
  — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2023
• The idea of a joint currency has long held traction in the region, with populist leaders pointing to the dominance of the dollar as evidence of neo-colonialism.
  — Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 23 Jan. 2023
• In November 2021, Modi’s announcement that the controversial laws would be repealed was widely seen as a win for the farmers and a rare retreat by the populist leader.
  — Krutika Pathi, Quartz, 16 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024