How to Use extremism in a Sentence

extremism

noun
  • Scare voters with references to the extremism of the Right.
    Matthew Continetti, National Review, 14 May 2022
  • It's given right-wing extremism an environment to thrive and grow.
    Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 17 May 2022
  • Even identifying right-wing extremism has been a challenge.
    Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 19 May 2022
  • Experts recommend gun control efforts as a potential solution to deadly extremism.
    Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 17 May 2022
  • Right-wing extremism is on the rise here and in Europe.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2024
  • For more on the rise of anti-drag extremism, check out the latest episode of Meet the Press Reports.
    Isabelle Schmeler, NBC News, 8 May 2023
  • And the growing threat of extremism in the U.S. military.
    Will Carless, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Today, the state has shown a clear stance against extremism.
    Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 26 May 2024
  • Behind the Plot: What does the plot reveal about the prevalence of right-wing extremism in Germany?
    Katrin Bennhold, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2022
  • The Marine Corps changes its rules on reporting extremism among the troops.
    Will Carless, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2024
  • Shouldn’t Democrats have a counterweight against their own brand of extremism?
    Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Among Austin's first acts as defense chief was to order a review of extremism among troops.
    Rachel Looker, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2023
  • The podcast emerged from three years of their reporting on right-wing extremism.
    Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Many of us who were raised in religious extremism don’t live in our bodies.
    Michelle Dowd, Time, 14 June 2023
  • How did extremism move from the outer edge of our discourse to the very center of our politics?
    The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2022
  • In the past several years, the former East Germany has seen a resurgence of right-wing extremism.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
  • But the biggest danger for everybody in the end is extremism.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Just as much, though, these candidates have struggled with the extremism that is part of the Trumpist package.
    Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The film’s villain is the extremism that fuels both factions, led on the grass-roots level by Kurtz and Place’s characters.
    Bethonie Butler, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The fight against extremism in the region has become a major arena in which the West and Russia have vied for influence.
    Sam Mednick, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 July 2023
  • Many of us in Congress have recognized that the scourge of domestic terrorism, and the extremism that drives it, are a threat to the homeland.
    Bennie G. Thompson, CNN, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Here are five takeaways from the hearing, focused on the nexus between extremism and Trump’s attempts to stay in power.
    Amber Phillips, Anchorage Daily News, 12 July 2022
  • The tech sector warned that the laws would prevent platforms from removing extremism and hate speech.
    Mark Sherman, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Not doing so will mean the further spread of extremism and antisemitism.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 26 Sep. 2023
  • For anyone studying the rise of right-wing extremism, the next step is to go beyond making these diagnoses to finding a cure for them.
    Michael Bobelian, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Last August, he was sentenced to 19 years in prison after being found guilty of extremism, which added on to a nine-year sentence for fraud and contempt of court.
    Cailey Gleeson, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
  • For decades, the Berlinale has been committed to democratic values and against all forms of right-wing extremism.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The topic of political extremism in the area started cropping up more and more.
    Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 May 2024
  • The latest from director Justin Kurzel explores the extremism of a white supremacist group.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2024
  • The global growth of Islam, and the rise of extremism across religions, also made this an urgent priority.
    Kathleen Magramo, CNN, 5 Sep. 2024

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