How to Use collectivism in a Sentence

collectivism

noun

• But in places without those means, collectivism is often the order of the day.
  — Jackie Bischof, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2020
• The troops are forced to set out—their hostage in tow—through the jungle to find a new base, and the pressure of the situation bears down on their sense of collectivism.
  — N.e.g., The Economist, 16 Sep. 2019
• Unlike the U.S., the Netherlands is a country built on consensus and collectivism.
  — Russell Shorto, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2017
• This is the same crowd who for years have extolled the virtues of Ayn Rand and decried any sort of help for the likes of student loan borrowers but then called for collectivism when their friends are in trouble.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 14 Mar. 2023
• Cloaked in the languorous melodies and mellow transitions of Exodus are fiery messages of hope and collectivism.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Feb. 2024
• Individualism has to have a very bad day to catch up to the toxicity of a good day for collectivism.
  — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2020
• Apologizing seems to be less of a problem in cultures with stronger norms of collectivism or politeness.
  — Adam Grant, New York Times, 8 May 2020
• This fight between collectivism and individualism, the rights of the worker and the rights of the owner, have been part of America since the country’s founding, Bailey says.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 25 Apr. 2017
• This fight between collectivism and individualism, the rights of the worker and the rights of the owner, have been part of America since the country’s founding, Bailey says.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 25 Apr. 2017
• It was aimed not only at his own country, but also at those others now drifting into collectivism.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
• Why would someone whose campaign stemmed the scourge of collectivism co-sign a 110-page Menshevik-Bolshevik Unity Pact?
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 1 Oct. 2020
• Ted Lasso is an ode to collectivism, infused with layered references to facts of pop culture, and a deep knowledge of the real-world context in which sports operate.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 23 July 2021
• The invisible hand may be no less naively utopian than collectivism.
  — WSJ, 15 Apr. 2022
• One is the mystifying movement toward greater collectivism as a means of improving the needs of the underprivileged.
  — David L. Bahnsen, National Review, 11 Nov. 2021
• To be sure, thorny complications can arise, but little attention has been given to the positive outcomes of this kind of collectivism when it’s applied to an unjust system.
  — Aja Romano, Vox, 3 June 2024
• Consider The Hierophant as the card of institutions and collectivism.
  — Sophie Saint Thomas, Allure, 5 Sep. 2021
• Part of the project’s popularity is the sense of collectivism that seems increasingly rare as the Internet becomes more fractured and polarized.
  — Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2022
• Such tragedies and destruction are prime examples of how American collectivism and cohesion is often formed in fire or water.
  — Phillip Morris, cleveland.com, 10 Sep. 2017
• The individualism of testing opponents collides with the collectivism that health officials say is needed to get the virus under control.
  — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Oct. 2020
• In a heartening demonstration of interstate collectivism, Maryland and Virginia are each sending 8,000 vaccine doses, more than tripling the amount available for health care workers in the nation's capital.
  — NBC News, 19 Dec. 2020
• As earlier anti-left writers such as Hayek insisted, any attempt to define the ends of life disconnected from the will of living beings is a form of collectivism, which in turn is the source of unfreedom and, worse, inhumanity.
  — Charles King, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2023
• Collectivism is the belief that everything produced really belongs to everybody, and the government’s job is to distribute it fairly.
  — Susan Shelley, Orange County Register, 21 Jan. 2017
• Rates were highest in countries including the United States that prize individual success over collectivism.
  — Lindsey Tanner, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Apr. 2021
• The pattern has grown increasingly stark as inequality has surged during China’s shift over the past 40 years from Maoist collectivism to state capitalism, with wealth concentrated on the east coast as the interior lags behind.
  — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 May 2021
• Keynesianism, socialism and central planning had captured the politics of the West, while varying degrees of collectivism and Communism prevailed behind the Iron Curtain.
  — R.c., The Economist, 9 July 2019
• The festival orchestra concert, in its own way, offered testimony to the communal benefits of collectivism.
  — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2016
• Their cultures also tend to put a higher premium on collectivism than on individualism.
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 19 Aug. 2014
• These are both examples of how simple acts of jeong can foster a form of collectivism, which has become increasingly important among today’s fragmented communities.
  — Charlotte Cho, Marie Claire, 29 June 2021
• Give me a common-good conservatism defined by the rich tapestries of religion, family, and civil society — not common-good collectivism or, worse, common-good communism.
  — Andrew T. Walker, National Review, 28 Feb. 2022
• Thus was born The New Deal, a statist monstrosity for free-market liberals who imagined that greater economic collectivism would inevitably lead to totalitarianism.
  — The Economist, 4 Dec. 2019

Last Updated: 6 Dec 2024