How to Use gradualism in a Sentence

gradualism

noun

• Such gradualism has not worked with North Korea in the past.
  — The Economist, 4 July 2019
• This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.
  — Fox News, 27 Aug. 2013
• Who is being served by such gradualism, the shareholder or the customer?
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2022
• The president has instead opted for gradualism, which is a code word for soft-pedaling the sad facts.
  — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 13 May 2018
• The overwhelming message was of gradualism — both on the rate of economic improvement and the Fed’s own efforts to wind down its era of low interest rates.
  — Neil Irwin, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2017
• Investors and the Federal Reserve may have grown too comfortable with gradualism — raising interest rates at a pace that is not too fast, not too slow, but just right.
  — Craig Torres, Bloomberg.com, 11 May 2017
• But gradualism has given way to wariness in recent weeks, partly thanks to a new series of data points showing that inflation is still high and might stay elevated for some time.
  — New York Times, 14 Dec. 2021
• Mr Macri’s bet on economic gradualism could also be derailed.
  — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
• This strategy allows Google—now Waymo—to pursue a different kind of gradualism.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 7 Nov. 2017
• Waymo realized that the key to making this work was a different kind of gradualism: fielding a taxi service that initially would only work on a limited number of streets and weather conditions.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 17 Apr. 2018
• Their goal was the immediate end to slavery, not the tepid and undeniably racist gradualism of the American Colonization Society.
  — Bennett Parten, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2021
• The old diffusion models may be predicated on a level of smoothness and gradualism in historical and social process which are simply not feasible.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 17 May 2011
• Tactically, a 75 basis-point increase would be a communication shift for Powell who has preferred to telegraph moves in advance and embrace gradualism.
  — Molly Smith, Fortune, 13 June 2022
• Phyletic gradualism seems implausible in light of the genetic evidence.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 23 Dec. 2010
• Although orthodox economists grumble about Mr Macri’s gradualism, Argentine investors seem to endorse it.
  — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
• More recently, however, Macri’s gradualism and dependence on international markets to help finance this transition have run into rising interest rates in the United States.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 16 May 2018
• After nearly five decades in Washington, Biden is an institutionalist, a political leader who believes in consensus and gradualism.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 17 Aug. 2020
• Such conditions inevitably produce a recognition of the limits of gradualism among conservatives fed up with years of rearguard compromise who desire a proactive rather than an essentially defensive and recessional policy program.
  — A. Wess Mitchell, National Review, 2 Apr. 2020
• Waymo's solution to the safety-verification problem has been extreme gradualism.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 21 May 2018
• The centre’s commitment to gradualism, pluralism and rationality are no match for populists’ simplistic emotional appeals.
  — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
• Burke’s focus on the social character of man, from Burke’s thoroughgoing gradualism, and from his innovative liberal alternative to Enlightenment radicalism.
  — Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review, 11 July 2019

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