How to Use capitalism in a Sentence
capitalism
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But his attraction to the criminal underworld was about more than capitalism.
— Joshua Alston, Variety, 5 June 2022 -
Some call it creative destruction, others may prefer winner-takes-all capitalism.
— Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2022 -
But this obsession to move on and prioritize capitalism is sadistic.
— Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2022 -
Why write about poverty, strife, desperation and capitalism?
— Hwang Dong-Hyuk, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 June 2022 -
The mannequin pictured on the left with socks up to its calves and a bag covering half of its face acts as a metaphor for the inconsistent and ambivalent nature of capitalism.
— Sarah Belmont, ARTnews.com, 16 Oct. 2024 -
Loot, which filmed a bulk of its scenes at the most expensive house in the continental U.S., isn’t an issue show but does have much to say about late-stage capitalism.
— Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 June 2022 -
Even hardcore capitalists acknowledge that capitalism is ill-equipped to deal with pollution.
— Tamar Haspel, Washington Post, 3 June 2022 -
The idea is that many of us have become divorced from nature by the forces of capitalism, industrialization, and urbanization.
— Eve Andrews, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2024 -
Morality and capitalism may soon intersect for the PGA Tour.
— Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 June 2022 -
Piketty’s tome provided the insight into capitalism’s inner workings that many were so urgently seeking.
— Gary Gerstle, Washington Post, 17 June 2022 -
How about the aggressive capitalism and social Darwinism of the United States?
— Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Oct. 2024 -
But her departure from Meta is the death knell of a movement defined by the economic boom times and expansive creep of capitalism of the 2010s.
— Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 9 June 2022 -
And the state of capitalism, and the absurd price of a Birkin bag.
— Maureen Dowd New York Times, Star Tribune, 12 July 2021 -
And there are times when the Democrats side with the hard right against a crony-capitalism bill.
— Sven Berg, idahostatesman, 2 Nov. 2017 -
And not to get too woo-woo, but that’s a tenet of capitalism [laughs].
— Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2021 -
But then that’s how capitalism works — the market sets the price.
— Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2019 -
When the bill comes due for capitalism in China, the West must be ready.
— Michael Hochberg, National Review, 1 Jan. 2021 -
If the rules of capitalism apply to banks, Deutsche should be wound down.
— The Economist, 19 Apr. 2018 -
Polls show more than half of 18- to 24-year-olds in the U.S. have a negative view of capitalism.
— Andy Kessler, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2022 -
Or the prairie’s the rare communal space, and the farmland is capitalism.
— In Swing State, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2023 -
And of course, the caveat that capitalism is bad — this is very exciting news!
— oregonlive, 6 Oct. 2022 -
The country hosts — in what feels like the final boss of late-stage capitalism — pay-per-view WWE events.
— Lewis Gordon, The Verge, 1 Dec. 2023 -
Stop treating us like cogs in the wheel of capitalism to be ground down and replaced when worn out.
— Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Jan. 2022 -
Rather than meme their way out of late capitalism, Oliver wants all the snacks to go back to making video games.
— Bethy Squires, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2021 -
But the goal of selling capitalism as a moral virtue never died.
— Nina Burleigh, The New Republic, 16 May 2023 -
The changes that came were the beginning of capitalism and that era of great wealth and ferocious change.
— Caroline Framke, Variety, 4 Feb. 2022 -
The scourge of click farms What are known as click farms are a good example of this gaming of capitalism.
— Kean Birch, Quartz, 13 Nov. 2019 -
The wonder of capitalism is that the money will then flow by itself.
— James MacKintosh, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2022 -
Looking forward to a treat is a tale as old as time, or at least as old as capitalism.
— Chloe Berger, Fortune, 14 June 2023 -
Under capitalism, a slim chance of survival can start to look like a lucky break.
— Madeline Leung Coleman, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2020
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