How to Use alarmism in a Sentence

alarmism

noun

• In some ways, this is healthy since deficit alarmism was never a good idea.
  — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 1 Aug. 2019
• Think Chicken Little, minus the alarmism, plus a lot more math.
  — Robbie Gonzalez, WIRED, 30 Mar. 2018
• The 60 Minutes segment with Paul Ehrlich might be a sign that his hard-core alarmism is dying off.
  — Dominic Pino, National Review, 3 Jan. 2023
• His challenge was not the alarmism of the pundits, but an appeal to our dignity and virtue.
  — Jd Flynn, National Review, 4 Sep. 2021
• Right now, notwithstanding the alarmism in some quarters in the press, the U.S. and its allies hold most of the important cards.
  — George Calhoun, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2021
• All things considered, alarmism seems like common sense to me.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 11 Oct. 2011
• Speaking from one side of his mouth, Trump has amplified alarmism.
  — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 29 Apr. 2020
• Some sages dismiss this argument as slippery-slope alarmism that won’t come to pass.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2020
• Is this angst merely economic alarmism, or a fear grounded in facts?
  — Joseph W. Sullivan, National Review, 22 Oct. 2021
• Are those questioning the alarmism on global warming also part of what makes us strong?
  — Alex Kingsbury, BostonGlobe.com, 18 May 2018
• In stepping back from his over-the-top alarmism, Lovelock has struck a blow for science and for reality.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 26 Apr. 2012
• The longest of these forewords, from cardiologist Vidya S. Kaushik, comes with hearty dose of alarmism.
  — Mayukh Sen, Bon Appetit, 27 June 2018
• Some responses to Wallace-Wells’ piece have decried its alarmism and despair.
  — Tommy Lynch, Slate Magazine, 25 July 2017
• Just as my husband’s absence started to become more real for me, which has been a challenge, the coronavirus alarmism took over all our lives.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 7 Apr. 2020
• To many in the mainstream of climate alarmism, and among the broader Left in general, the opinions expressed in the above paragraph sound perfectly reasonable.
  — Timothy Benson, National Review, 15 Sep. 2017
• For now, though, conservative groups seem to be doubling down on their investments in election-fraud alarmism.
  — Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2021
• The Pearl Harbor experience, then, does not support alarmism.
  — John Mueller, Foreign Affairs, 22 Mar. 2022
• The overall tone, of course, was cable-news alarmism, but the debates also resembled those celebrity-packed, prime-time game shows that litter the schedule all summer.
  — Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2019
• The race might look a lot different today if the president had staked out a position between alarmism and ignorance.
  — Isaac Schorr, National Review, 27 Oct. 2020
• Instead, they are horrified by the rhetorical strategy of using alarmism to make a point about climate change.
  — Susan Matthews, Slate Magazine, 10 July 2017
• Installing a fairly large home appliance inside your vehicle may seem a level of alarmism akin to wearing a tin-foil hat.
  — Bengt Halvorson, Car and Driver, 28 July 2017
• Already, experts on media and kids are cautioning against alarmism, using this as a teachable moment.
  — Lisa Guernsey, Slate Magazine, 10 Aug. 2017
• And despite the alarmism, women who have anal are slowly but surely making their way into mainstream narratives.
  — Amanda Chatel, Glamour, 20 Oct. 2017
• For parents eager to counter environmental alarmism, here is a true story of adaptation and hope.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 21 June 2019
• More fromThe Editors Progressives have decided to up the alarmism about your stove with two reliable tactics.
  — The Editors, National Review, 11 Jan. 2023
• A recent New York magazine cover story on climate change assured readers that all of the previous climate-change alarmism was too tepid.
  — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 14 July 2017
• This pervasive climate alarmism is the culmination of persistent eco-anxiety over the past decades.
  — Bjorn Lomborg, Forbes, 20 May 2021
• Democrats looked at Republican alarmism about Obama and marveled at the intensity.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 15 May 2017
• Greenwald has been citing incessantly in defense of his alarmism about de Moraes was notably written in September.
  — Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 18 Jan. 2023
• The internet of the 1990s was a perfect canvas for alarmism: hard to define, easy to misunderstand, growing rapidly but not yet vital or even familiar to those most inclined to worry about it.
  — John Herrman, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2017

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024