How to Use tribalism in a Sentence

tribalism

noun

• Tribalism within the group is strong.
• The idea of tribalism is always in the background of the show.
  — OregonLive.com, 30 Oct. 2017
• The tribalism of it all framed each season, if not the reason to be a fan.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 May 2021
• And then there’s the power of tribalism to keep the GOP voters from switching to the Dems.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 8 Dec. 2017
• Biden decried the lies and tribalism that feed such rage.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 17 May 2022
• At its most basic, tribalism is a way to survive the trip.
  — Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Nov. 2021
• In essence, the city appears to be moving away from the ethnic tribalism that has defined the city for decades.
  — Lincoln Mitchell, CNN, 19 May 2021
• This kind of tribalism is both a cause and a consequence of trouble.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 23 Apr. 2018
• The paean to tribalism is pleasing to China — and profitable.
  — Armond White, National Review, 9 Sep. 2020
• Both these influences — the tribalism and the fear of cancel culture — can be seen in the Trump-vs.-Squad Simpsons clip.
  — Peter Spiliakos, National Review, 28 Aug. 2019
• But the appeals to rise above the tribalism of the moment from the two veteran lawmakers fell on deaf ears.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Dec. 2019
• Back then, software tribalism drove a wedge between PC and Mac users.
  — John Patrick Pullen, Time, 22 Aug. 2017
• The answer to one kind of tribalism is not forming another tribe of our own.
  — Elif Shafak, Quartz, 6 Aug. 2019
• Like the original myth, this one trades on the tribalism of its adherents.
  — Jonathan Stevenson, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2021
• Try to think of where the other person is coming from, instead of tribalism.
  — Izzy Grinspan, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Nov. 2022
• The group and tribalism and information flow are also part of it.
  — Gary Stix, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2023
• The danger at the moment is that the capital could be sliding into a kind of tribalism.
  — Gerald F. Seib, WSJ, 3 Apr. 2017
• The author sees an antidote to this tribalism in the rise of fantasy leagues.
  — David Papineau, WSJ, 22 Feb. 2021
• In Portland, Maine, chef Brad Messier agreed with the sentiments, but said the country's tribalism is too great to ignore.
  — Philip Marcelo, Fox News, 3 July 2018
• But that doesn’t mean that the tribalism enabled by the internet is entirely a bad thing, Ms. Van Cleaf notes.
  — Schuyler Velasco, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Aug. 2017
• Stand in the name of violence and repression and tribalism?
  — Anchorage Daily News, 20 Dec. 2017
• And so there is this kind of tribalism, as one expert described it to me that goes on during election seasons.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2023
• Instead, focus on what the two sets of remarks say about Trump’s view of tribalism and loyalty.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2019
• And the fact that the president couldn’t stay away and a lot of his followers couldn’t stay away tells you intensity of tribalism.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 29 May 2018
• But when sports teams win, neighborhood tribalism gets swept to the side and more hugs and high-fives get exchanged, like gifts on Christmas morning.
  — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Feb. 2023
• Just maybe there were reasons, other than tribalism, for change?
  — Star Tribune, 21 Nov. 2020
• For his part, the president has discussed the A$AP Rocky case not in terms of justice, but in terms of tribalism and nationalism.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 27 July 2019
• Identity and the red wall The legend of the red wall – and its 2019 collapse – is tightly bound to an idea of British political tribalism.
  — Katie Marie Davies, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 June 2024
• Here are some practical tips: Resist the tribalism trap.
  — Arash Javanbakht, The Conversation, 9 Aug. 2024
• Who benefits from rigid tribalism about racial identity?
  — Frank Shyong, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024