How to Use wokeness in a Sentence

wokeness

noun

• Adam Brody has a bone to pick with celebrities railing against wokeness.
  — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 16 Sep. 2024
• Does Barnet want to make fun of woke white people or of wokeness itself?
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2024
• But now, there is no tolerance and wokeness has somehow become bad thing in the mind of people.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 20 June 2023
• Some of the character choices were confusing, the jokes about wokeness were often cringey, and the absence of Samantha was glaring.
  — The Editors, Vulture, 16 June 2023
• Of course, there’s no way to declare that the Doctor shouldn’t be Black that isn’t out-and-out racist, and so many of these comments are couched in attacks on the producers for wokeness or virtue signaling.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• As Marcos, Nico Greetham is also saddled with an overload of wokeness.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2024
• As Hawaii reels from devastating wildfires and considers how to rebuild, far-right figures are… blaming wokeness for the whole thing.
  — Edith Olmsted, The New Republic, 18 Aug. 2023
• The Democratic Party does not need more hate mixed into their misguided wokeness.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 28 June 2024
• The New Right coalesced as part of a backlash against the woke excesses of the recent past—but railing against wokeness is always faintly embarrassing.
  — Sam Kriss, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
• The New Right coalesced as part of a backlash against the woke excesses of the recent past—but railing against wokeness is always faintly embarrassing.
  — Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
• Apparently, even taking arms against the United States is less noxious than wokeness.
  — Jeff Raikes, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• Fans of Wukong using the game to rail against wokeness aren’t necessarily for embracing Chinese culture, but a nimble riff on that culture is still on offer through the game.
  — Aja Romano, Vox, 4 Sep. 2024
• Business Column: Right-wing culture warriors say wokeness is dead.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• It was updated and adapted (more texting, wokeness, lip filler) into a new Adam Sandler movie featuring his two daughters.
  — Emma Allen, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
• The biggest story about higher education over the last decade has been increased politicization, not wokeness.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• Richard Hanania, the conservative commentator, signed copies of his book on wokeness.
  — Kevin Roose, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2023
• Opponents have dismissed it as a screed, but much of it is a recitation of unexceptionable (and often boilerplate) arguments against wokeness.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2024
• Within the first five minutes, the comedian uses any one of the following starter pack of subjects as a punch line: trans people, disabled people, wokeness, domestic violence, violence against women, rape.
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 5 Jan. 2024
• Exposed to bad economic news, Republicans’ level of concern over wokeness and critical race theory dropped more than any other issue.
  — Clifford A. Young, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2023
• There are almost certainly some young men and women who’ve opted out of serving because of wokeness, but the data available suggest there are simpler corrections that can happen under any administration.
  — Luther Ray Abel, National Review, 9 Feb. 2024
• One of our major political movements — Trumpism or wokeness — will be humiliated this fall.
  — Natan Ehrenreich, National Review, 1 Aug. 2024
• The dirty little secret undergirding wokeness is that its practitioners have nothing but indignation in their corner.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 9 Jan. 2024
• As yet another insurance company is pulling back from issuing policies in Florida following a string of natural disasters, the state’s chief financial officer has accused the industry of pulling out not because of losses, but due to wokeness.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 20 July 2023
• For many participants at last December's Natal Conference, concerns about declining fertility was accompanied by anger at immigration and wokeness.
  — Joel Mathis, theweek, 6 June 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024