How to Use institutionalism in a Sentence

institutionalism

noun
  • Harris chalks much of this bias up to institutionalism.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 8 Nov. 2019
  • With the threat posed to law enforcement and the Constitution on Jan. 6, Ms. Cheney’s institutionalism kicked in and drove her down the path of political defeat.
    WSJ, 22 Aug. 2022
  • What has been on display is a perfect storm of misjudgment and anti-institutionalism.
    Dan Balz, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Wanting better leaders never goes out of style, but the series’s reverent institutionalism now seems much more remote.
    James Poniewozik, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Only then, when all Biden's appeals to institutionalism — Congress!
    W. James Antle Iii, The Week, 4 Aug. 2021
  • Biden has argued that only his moderation, his experience, and his institutionalism can relieve the country’s crises.
    Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2021
  • In the critics’ view, the previous Justice Department wasn’t normal, so deference to its debatable decisions amounts to a perversion of justice masquerading as institutionalism.
    David Montgomery, Washington Post, 19 July 2021
  • Both also faced significant criticism from people who saw their institutionalism as an overly optimistic analysis of the problems facing society.
    Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 3 June 2022
  • Whereas those were attempts—sometimes robust, sometimes cynical—to establish a set of countervailing scientific institutions, the Galilean mode is a free-floating anti-institutionalism.
    Ari Schulman, The New Republic, 15 June 2020
  • Did Greene actually bend toward institutionalism, or did the institution relent?
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 11 Jan. 2023
  • No one can grant permission for this kind of reconciliation grounded in personal experience or legislate its effect, thus explaining the vehemence of Hickey’s anti-institutionalism.
    Jarrett Earnest, The New York Review of Books, 8 June 2022
  • For one thing, its anti-institutionalism would disempower journalism.
    Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 17 Nov. 2011
  • In the space of a few short years, its leadership has pinged from neoliberalism to radical libertarianism to minoritarian institutionalism to authoritarian nationalism, hauling the conservative citizens of Sterling Heights along in their wake.
    Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 31 Dec. 2020
  • Promoting this ideology of anti-institutionalism and radical individualism was another way in which American intellectuals were attempting to break Americans away from European culture.
    Daniel Ross Goodman, National Review, 31 Aug. 2019

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