How to Use egalitarianism in a Sentence

egalitarianism

noun
  • For those holding the purse strings, egalitarianism is the name of the game.
    Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Only once in the history of golf has there been a longer stretch of egalitarianism.
    Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 18 June 2017
  • By the 1950s, the American economy was not only the most advanced in the world, but was once more a bastion of egalitarianism.
    The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Westwater Canyon, where a two-day, 17-mile float on the Colorado River washed away any trace of our drift from egalitarianism.
    Sunset Magazine, 28 July 2022
  • The beauty of the Spurs’ bubble ball approach lied in its egalitarianism.
    Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 6 Dec. 2020
  • The only hope for a better life lies in an idyllic island in the Atlantic Ocean, known as the Offshore, where abundance and egalitarianism reign.
    Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2017
  • On the other, the varied aims of Black and Native peoples (and those who were both) ran up against those of white settlers who refused to accept even a whiff of racial egalitarianism.
    Philip Deloria, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
  • While trafficking in rhetoric of unity and egalitarianism, Gantz is careful not to come off as too dovish.
    Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2019
  • My partner calls his parents by their first names, which was a decision made decades ago in the spirit of egalitarianism.
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 24 June 2023
  • Or, in some cases, the team members buy the pretense of egalitarianism and then are enraged when the boss makes a decision that is at odds with their position.
    Prudy Gourguechon, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
  • In a nod to rising egalitarianism, women now make a covenant to obey God directly.
    Caroline Kline, The Conversation, 14 Dec. 2021
  • In other words, the most radical goal of the movement is egalitarianism.
    Gloria Steinem, Time, 5 Mar. 2020
  • Nor did Lee’s defeat lead to an embrace of racial egalitarianism.
    Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 4 June 2017
  • Overcome by egalitarianism, David invites a couple of homeless people into the store to share in its riches, which adds an element of chaos as the night wears on.
    J.r. Jones, Chicago Reader, 7 Sep. 2017
  • In its place, Propst thought, egalitarianism and creative discourse among co-workers would reign.
    Richard Cooke, The New Republic, 4 Jan. 2021
  • Later, Dimitry’s wife, in a show of faux egalitarianism, makes a resistant crew member get into the hot tub, mid-shift.
    Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2022
  • To Mary Pete this is simple egalitarianism and freedom of choice.
    Dale Peck, The New Republic, 12 July 2019
  • Luttwak and Shamir argue that the debacle of 1973 reinforced the IDF’s culture of egalitarianism.
    Shashank Joshi, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
  • But this tournament, the first with 32 teams, has been a rollicking display of egalitarianism.
    Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2023
  • After all, egalitarianism is very Icelandic, as is a viking-like endurance against the elements.
    Mosha Lundström Halbert, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2021
  • But also, there’s a kind of twisted egalitarianism to Larry’s bile.
    James Poniewozik, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Then the economy began to unravel, enabling the rise of Hugo Chávez and his wayward egalitarianism.
    Simran Sethi, Washington Post, 24 July 2019
  • Anathema to much of the white South and to its allies in the North, Lincoln frustrated abolitionists who were more advanced than he on freedom and egalitarianism.
    Jon Meacham, Time, 12 Oct. 2022
  • His discomfort with the process — and decades spent listening to calves cry out for their mothers — ultimately led Mr. Gerdes to quit the dairy business and adopt a policy of total egalitarianism for all the species calling the farm home.
    Melissa Eddy, New York Times, 10 July 2021
  • By rewarding the semi-random contributor of the arrow, the Ju/’hoansi kept their most talented hunters in check, in order to defend the group’s egalitarianism.
    Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2020
  • But in the name of humane egalitarianism, the Mars critics would swap out the alleged narcissism of wealthy visionaries for their own even more narrow and covetous egomania.
    James Poulos, Orange County Register, 29 Apr. 2017
  • Once, the United States claimed egalitarianism as a central ideal.
    Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic, 12 July 2018
  • In the spirit of egalitarianism, producers gave their Hall H audience an opportunity to be in the film.
    Diane Bellcolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 July 2022
  • The Kardashians’ arrival inevitably signals a messy American egalitarianism, which may be the only good thing about them.
    Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 3 July 2014
  • Time was when sneers and jeers would greet such oenological egalitarianism.
    Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 21 May 2018

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