How to Use exceptionalism in a Sentence

exceptionalism

noun
  • The Present Is this the end of the myth of American exceptionalism?
    Big Think, 24 June 2024
  • That will likely mean putting to bed once and for all the idea of tech exceptionalism.
    Tristan Bove, Fortune, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Thus, the Jews stand in the way of the Left’s rage against transcendent truth, against the achievements of the West, against the claims of American exceptionalism.
    Joseph Loconte, National Review, 30 May 2021
  • But in the end the most important thing is someone with a message that, in the end, goes to the root of American exceptionalism.
    How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 15 June 2023
  • He has been raised by parents and a school system steeped in the myths of American exceptionalism.
    Amir-Hussein Radjy, The New Republic, 6 Jan. 2021
  • Your book talks a lot about the idea of American exceptionalism.
    Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 16 Aug. 2017
  • This is, sadly, the other side to the belief in our own exceptionalism: a seductive myth that can be curdled and spoiled.
    Rich Logis, The New Republic, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Despite a bruising year for U.S. stocks, few investors are ready to call an end to the long run of American exceptionalism.
    Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2022
  • But there’s one area where American exceptionalism has stayed on full display for more than a decade: the stock market.
    Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 23 July 2023
  • The appall reflects the sense of exceptionalism built into the fabric of Austin's psyche.
    Peter Holley, Houston Chronicle, 6 June 2020
  • But suffice to say, their recent run of exceptionalism may be over.
    Gabe Lacques, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2021
  • The Jews, like no one else, delivered these truths to the world: an example of Jewish exceptionalism.
    Joseph Loconte, National Review, 30 May 2021
  • Mila, a Namibian, has the most crooked husband — and the hottest takes on American exceptionalism.
    Seija Rankin, EW.com, 8 July 2021
  • Her visual album Black Is King, of course, is no exception to her rule of exceptionalism.
    Cliché Wynter, Allure, 31 July 2020
  • As long as the United States preens at its own exceptionalism, Borat will be there to reveal our inner Kazakhstan.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2020
  • Others said the idea of American exceptionalism shouldn’t be mentioned at all in lessons.
    Bradford Betz, Fox News, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Some giants stand so far above the rest that their exceptionalism is a foregone conclusion.
    Eric Tingwall, Car and Driver, 5 July 2020
  • And since the birth of the modern internet in the mid-1990s, tech exceptionalism has made Silicon Valley the economy’s city on a hill — a place where the normal rules didn’t apply.
    Tristan Bove, Fortune, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Bloom filed last week to go public, and a trot through its prospectus proves the point of Silicon Valley’s deserved exceptionalism.
    Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 18 June 2018
  • War, used as language, can amount to a similar kind of exceptionalism.
    Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2020
  • Its sense of raison d'etre as a bulwark against dark eastern hordes, its sense of missionary exceptionalism as the guardian against dangerous forces like the Nazis and the West – never went away.
    Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • And from that has arisen the anxiety that our exceptionalism is at best simply odd, and at worst simply arrogant.
    Allen C. Guelzo, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2018
  • This exceptionalism is a choice, one made each time nothing is done to limit access to military weapons after the latest burst of killing.
    Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 10 Aug. 2019
  • With his death, Los Angeles must turn to a new generation of philanthropists and address the myths that made claim for the city’s exceptionalism.
    Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2021
  • This British exceptionalism was, well, just part of the natural order.
    Philippe Sands, The New York Review of Books, 23 June 2020
  • Excellent health care, free to all at the point of service, is one reason Ticos—as Costa Ricans are known—and their neighbours talk of the country’s exceptionalism.
    The Economist, 17 Apr. 2021
  • The California exceptionalism that so often runs through this sort of speech was still there, but tempered.
    Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2021
  • To many of them, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were expensive fiascoes that shattered their sense of American exceptionalism.
    Charlotte Alter, Time, 23 Jan. 2020
  • This election year provides two competing visions of our nation's history: one, based on tales of glory and exceptionalism; the other more reflective of the stories told around a wider range of family dinner tables.
    Lauren Villagran, USA TODAY, 16 May 2024
  • In Europe, much like in the US, agriculture is governed with a lighter touch compared to other industries, a paradigm often known as agricultural exceptionalism.
    Jan Dutkiewicz, Vox, 2 May 2024

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