as in conservativeness
attitudes or opinions tending to favor established ideas, conditions, or institutions
the state's well-known conservatism means that progressive legislation always has an uphill battle
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Recent Examples of conservatism
Our view is that management didn’t raise its outlook one quarter into its fiscal year out of conservatism.
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Jeff Marks, CNBC, 11 Feb. 2025
Since then, Pence has become a spokesman for traditional conservatism in the , clashing with the dominant MAGA populists.
—Flynn Nicholls, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025
Sources in the production biz talk about how major events such as Netflix’s share price fall of 2022 and the U.S. labor strikes have transformed a fevered market into one defined by conservatism.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 28 Jan. 2025
But they were offset by a more secular and pro-business conservatism.
—John Blake, CNN, 12 Jan. 2025
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Jeff Marks, CNBC, 11 Feb. 2025
Since then, Pence has become a spokesman for traditional conservatism in the , clashing with the dominant MAGA populists.
—Flynn Nicholls, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025
Sources in the production biz talk about how major events such as Netflix’s share price fall of 2022 and the U.S. labor strikes have transformed a fevered market into one defined by conservatism.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 28 Jan. 2025
But they were offset by a more secular and pro-business conservatism.
—John Blake, CNN, 12 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for conservatism
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“Conservatism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conservatism. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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