How to Use ideology in a Sentence

ideology

noun
  • He says that the election is not about ideology.
  • Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
    Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 20 Apr. 2018
  • But pop’s ideology shifted a bit over the course of the 2010s.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 15 June 2022
  • It’s the kind of book people need to read to make sense of the gender-ideology wave that has swept through the West.
    Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 1 Mar. 2021
  • The leading approach is sure to fail: doubling down on the ideologies and practices that led to the pro-Hamas fever in the first place.
    Heather Mac Donald, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2023
  • As an ideology, Mather wants most of his hitters to spray the ball all over the field.
    Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 26 July 2022
  • Part of that ideology has given Miss Pam wings over the years.
    Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2024
  • This center will set us apart from the rest of the nation with new creative ideologies.
    Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al.com, 10 June 2019
  • The current push to elect more women is just the pink flavor of the same old left-wing ideology.
    Alexandra Desanctis, National Review, 25 Jan. 2018
  • They were not roped and tied by ideology when pragmatism was the best path to progress.
    Gov. Butch Otter, idahostatesman, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Some of the resentment has as much to do with ego as ideology.
    Benjamin Svetkey, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Along with that, of course, comes the ideology of bringing slavery along with it.
    Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Trump didn’t invent the ideology that now goes by his name.
    David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2022
  • And there’s a dichotomy of battling ideologies that didn’t exist in the movie.
    Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Their anti-choice ideology has no place in my body, nor in any laws.
    Adele E. Zimmermann, Cosmopolitan, 1 Nov. 2017
  • That’s what all of those weapons are, that opposing ideology come to life.
    Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 July 2023
  • But as Young has grown, she’s developed her own views and ideologies.
    Suzette Hackney, USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2024
  • In the three European countries, the drop did not vary much by ideology.
    David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2021
  • But at the end of the day, one of our two great parties has completely abandoned its ideology.
    CBS News, 10 Oct. 2021
  • It’s that, anything that runs counter to your ideology?
    Andy Meek, BGR, 12 Feb. 2022
  • The racial ideology revealed in the former Fox News host’s text message.
    A.o. Scott, New York Times, 3 May 2023
  • As in Snow, in Nights of Plague fiction is a tool to probe and undermine ideology and the myths of politics.
    Kaya Genç, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Then risk progress for the sake of ideology or fidelity to their party.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Polizzi says sexism and an embrace of right wing ideology cast Stewart from the race.
    Hartford Courant, courant.com, 11 May 2018
  • While this bill had enormous effects, the ideology behind it had been decades in the making.
    Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Just change things up — under the knife and with some hormones and a dose of transgender ideology.
    Damon Linker, TheWeek, 13 Mar. 2020
  • People who say my ideology is this — yeah, but that changes.
    David Marchese Photo Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Opponents of her son’s racial ideology had threatened to protest in front of it.
    Kimberly Winston, Houston Chronicle, 12 May 2018
  • Trump is not alone as a man of the right in breaking with traditional right-wing ideology.
    CBS News, 23 Mar. 2024
  • Yet, Riefenstahl, who first broke into the German film industry as an actress, spent decades after the war denying her association with Nazi ideology and claiming ignorance of the Holocaust.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 3 Oct. 2024

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