radicalism

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Recent Examples of radicalism Following the attempt on her life, Yousafzai grew into a global figure in the fight for women’s rights and against radicalism, becoming the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize at 17. Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 23 Nov. 2024 This straightforward, beautiful character study exemplifies neither radicalism nor schizophrenia, although Pierre’s persistent dissatisfaction indicates a larger and recognizable alienation from the trash and decadence of most new films. Armond White, National Review, 1 Nov. 2024 One famous user was Uschi Obermaier, a model who lived on various communes in West Germany and became an emblem of left-wing radicalism in the late sixties. Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024 In the height of the singer-songwriter era, when earnest autobiographical confessions were prized as tokens of authenticity, Newman’s use of sarcasm and unlikable protagonists was an act of literary radicalism in pop music. David Hajdu, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for radicalism 
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Noun
  • The news media’s attitudes toward capitalism improved more than attitudes toward socialism or communism over time.
    H. Sami Karaca, The Conversation, 13 Jan. 2025
  • In 1922, the USSR—Union of Soviet Socialist Republics—was formed when delegates from Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, and the Transcaucasian Federation approved a declaration that created the first nation based on Marxist socialism.
    Mark Jones, The Arizona Republic, 30 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Russell’s case represents one of the last gasps of the Biden administration’s hard-charging approach to tackling violent far-right extremism that is all but guaranteed to change during US president Donald Trump’s second term in office.
    Ali Winston, WIRED, 29 Jan. 2025
  • This reality does not mean that HTS will seek to replicate the extremism of Taliban in Afghanistan or the genocidal repression of Islamic State (also known as ISIS) in Iraq and Syria.
    Fawaz A. Gerges, Foreign Affairs, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • And the rise of reactionary populism—not just in North America and Europe but also in India and in parts of Latin America—has shattered the ideological dominance that liberalism enjoyed for two decades after the end of the Cold War.
    Alexander Cooley, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Growing suburban liberalism has put Georgia, Arizona, and even North Carolina on the map for Democrats.
    Stephanie Ternullo / Made by History, TIME, 16 Dec. 2024

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