How to Use incrementalism in a Sentence

incrementalism

noun

• Some Democrats seem to be angry at this kind of incrementalism, and/or afraid the rug will be pulled out from under them.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 8 Oct. 2017
• In this context, Biden sees the greatest risks in incrementalism.
  — David Brooks, Star Tribune, 21 May 2021
• But there was a divide in the movement between those who argued for incrementalism and those who wanted the frontal assault.
  — New York Times, 25 June 2022
• The clash between the social justice moment and Disney incrementalism could come to a head on the basketball court.
  — Washington Post, 4 July 2020
• Liberals defended a commitment to truth and reason in the face of the big lie, and to incrementalism in the face of visionary madness.
  — The Economist, 4 Dec. 2019
• Silence is golden There's more incrementalism inside the new Pro.
  — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 15 June 2017
• Instead, their climb up the charts has been defined by incrementalism -- the product of a growing fanbase rather than an ephemeral virality.
  — Caitlin Kelley, Billboard, 24 Apr. 2019
• In an era crying out for radical thinking, Packer offers the damp squib of incrementalism.
  — Aaron Timms, The New Republic, 13 Sep. 2021
• The decision set the course of Biden’s presidency, establishing from the start that his time in the Oval Office would deviate from the incrementalism of his Senate career.
  — Alana Abramson, Time, 27 Apr. 2021
• If, through her incrementalism, she can be seen as someone who made sturdy and stable the European ship, that would certainly be a worthy legacy.
  — Griff Witte, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2017
• The answer will be incrementalism in all aspects: in autonomy, range, scope, and usage.
  — David Roberts, Vox, 8 May 2018
• In a globalized world, this kind of provincialism and incrementalism has merit.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2021
• Black Visions was formed in 2017, after the president’s election, by younger activists who had grown impatient with incrementalism.
  — Astead W. Herndon, chicagotribune.com, 26 Sep. 2020
• After the invasion, our response has been better, but it's still been characterized a bit by incrementalism.
  — CBS News, 2 Mar. 2022
• Draped in idealism and wisdom but anchored in data and incrementalism.
  — Dan Zak, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2023
• Kennedy, to his credit, wasn’t talking merely about incrementalism.
  — Sean Illing, Vox, 8 June 2018
• Decisive leadership and big ideas have given way to risk aversion and incrementalism.
  — New York Times, 21 June 2021
• Companies may protect themselves against major gaffes but risk a kind of plodding incrementalism.
  — Brian Christian, WIRED, 25 Apr. 2012
• The numbers show that incrementalism is a road to ruin and the transformation in energy supply and consumption required for a better road is staggering.
  — Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2019
• The great divide in that room, the divide between the white liberals on the one hand and the black activists on the other, was really about this choice between pragmatism and radicalism, between incrementalism and revolution.
  — Sean Illing, Vox, 8 June 2018
• The Biden administration’s climate strategy is starting to look a lot like tepid incrementalism.
  — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 25 May 2021
• But Loder’s systematic incrementalism had done what nothing else had.
  — Atul Gawande, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2017
• On matters of human sexuality, though, it can be argued that Francis’s incrementalism is vexing to the point of being incoherent.
  — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2020
• The Democratic race has turned into a contest between incrementalism and structural change, between the inside game and the change-the-game insurgents, between presumed electability and a loftier aspirational vision.
  — NBC News, 15 Sep. 2019
• Given Powell’s penchant for incrementalism—imposingpolicy changes piecemeal in a series of small bites—a quarter-point cut onWednesday likely would not be the end of the policy easing.
  — Larry Light, Fortune, 29 July 2019
• Progressives, from the center-left to the far left, both inside and outside government, view moral issues through an absolutist lens and reject any incrementalism or pragmatic compromise in U.S. policy.
  — Shay Khatiri, National Review, 12 Apr. 2023
• Gonzalez’s message — that the state should aim higher than Baker’s incrementalism — proved unpersuasive to voters; four years later, some analysts question whether Democrats will have any success making a similar pitch this time around.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2021
• But even as Chief Justice Roberts lost power, some of the values associated with him — incrementalism and deep concern for institutional legitimacy — remained evident in at least some of the court’s work.
  — New York Times, 2 July 2021
• But the scope and ambition that characterize her policy platform is a clear repudiation of the incrementalism that many progressives associate with Obama.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2019
• Pragmatism, moderation, incrementalism, reform: These might be conservative virtues in principle, but in practice, the American right junked them years ago.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 21 July 2017

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