How to Use opportunism in a Sentence

opportunism

noun

• To Arai, all this smacked of opportunism and hypocrisy.
  — Esther Wang, Curbed, 17 Dec. 2021
• The embrace of hazy IPA may smack of opportunism, but Dubovick doesn't care.
  — Josh Noel, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2017
• Oregon stabbed many in the back with its move and took opportunism to a slimy no-trust extreme.
  — Ndaschel, oregonlive, 8 Aug. 2023
• Has Qatar’s opportunism – trying to play so many sides – come back to haunt it?
  — Jen Kirby, Daily Intelligencer, 11 June 2017
• Williams has shown a knack for patience and opportunism.
  — Chadd Cripe, idahostatesman, 14 Dec. 2017
• This isn’t just opportunism, a shot at grabbing street space while most cars are parked.
  — Alex Davies, Wired, 13 Apr. 2020
• Masayoshi Son’s keen sense of opportunism has allowed him to pull off some of his biggest deals to date.
  — Tim Culpan | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2019
• There was more than a little opportunism here: The league would save clubs like Real Madrid.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 23 Apr. 2021
• There has been much talk of double standards, opportunism, hypocrisy and all of the things that make politicians rather easy to call out.
  — Mark Leibovich, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2021
• This opportunism is matched by a more overt sense of ambition.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2023
• And the concept that baseball can take us away from that is a false narrative at best and crass opportunism at worst.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 4 July 2020
• The crime and opportunism that often follow big storms has been a notable non-factor, at least for now.
  — Tamara Lush, The Seattle Times, 6 Sep. 2017
• The crime and opportunism that often follows big storms has been a notable non-factor, at least for now.
  — Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2017
• Sometimes there’s an unavoidable whiff of opportunism in the air.
  — Nell Beram, New York Times, 2 July 2018
• In Makowsky’s telling, the Roslyn scandal wasn’t a simple case of opportunism, greed, or even, as suggested in the movie, sociopathy.
  — Holly Ojalvo, Quartz, 22 Apr. 2020
• Some women who waited years to speak out were accused of opportunism.
  — Arno Pedram, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2020
• There is an unmistakable sense of opportunism in the air, and a touch of imagination.
  — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 18 July 2019
• Some of this cultural cross-pollination, of course, had the stench of opportunism.
  — New York Times, 27 Aug. 2019
• But if the British leader attempts to play both sides out of opportunism, the U.S. president’s search for middle ground is born of pragmatism.
  — Washington Post, 10 June 2021
• For the same reason that motivates most of Putin's actions: opportunism.
  — Eliot Borenstein, CNN, 28 Mar. 2022
• Political opportunism was a big impetus for the speech, said two of the people.
  — Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2022
• So its push to sell gas to desperate buyers overseas isn’t just opportunism.
  — Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 11 Aug. 2022
• The opportunism has put some local governments on guard.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 10 Aug. 2017
• Benson advocates opportunism: survivors may need to scrounge and steal, poach game, trap muskrats.
  — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2021
• The Republicans could resume their opportunism over the deficit should the economic winds turn.
  — Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2021
• Consumers, too, have taken a hit as the culls contribute to soaring egg prices, though that may be due in part to opportunism from egg suppliers.
  — Melody Schreiber, The New Republic, 21 Feb. 2023
• The economics of opportunism is obvious at every stage in this great shift.
  — Marilynne Robinson, The New York Review of Books, 27 May 2020
• This may sound like naked opportunism in the midst of a campaign, but gun control has been the through-line of Feinstein's political career.
  — Seema Mehta, latimes.com, 28 Mar. 2018
• Even Rubio, despite his appalling opportunism, might return to his conservative roots if freed of the need to ingratiate himself with Trump.
  — Max Boot, Washington Post, 5 July 2024
• Driven by both fear and opportunism, however, China is now insulating itself from networked attacks and building networks of its own to turn against its rivals.
  — Henry Farrell, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2019

Last Updated: 23 Nov 2024