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as in extremism
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Recent Examples of radicalism
Currents redirected its radicalism into civil rights, and paid homage to the old Yiddishkeit with schmaltzy nostalgia.
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Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
The North American university is often painted as a hotbed of radicalism.
—Hazlitt, 4 Sep. 2024
As governments delivered unprecedented economic growth and built strong welfare states, popular support for radicalism diminished.
—Sheri Berman, Foreign Affairs, 11 Nov. 2022
But the music video—which depicts two men kissing and a transgender woman dressing—was a true act of radicalism in the face of America’s puritanical, conservative Bush years.
—Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 15 Aug. 2024
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Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
The North American university is often painted as a hotbed of radicalism.
—Hazlitt, 4 Sep. 2024
As governments delivered unprecedented economic growth and built strong welfare states, popular support for radicalism diminished.
—Sheri Berman, Foreign Affairs, 11 Nov. 2022
But the music video—which depicts two men kissing and a transgender woman dressing—was a true act of radicalism in the face of America’s puritanical, conservative Bush years.
—Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 15 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for radicalism
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The Italian frequently invoked his potentially incendiary political and religious beliefs (socialism and atheism) in his analyses, and almost never engages in the kind of de-escalatory coachspeak that permeates most MLS press conferences.Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
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There are no conversations about socialism or welfare; this is not that type of movie either.Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024
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However, recent events in Afghanistan have tempered expectations for a transition from Islamic extremism to egalitarian tolerance.Timothy Nerozzi, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 17 Dec. 2024
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The answer may offer a clue to his presidency: either as a divisive figure pandering to what his critics say is extremism, or a transactional leader promoting policies that the election result suggested are popular with broad swaths of the American public.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
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In a state where a blue supermajority in the state Capitol has boasted about making life better for the neediest residents, making life easier for a billionaire’s party room is out-of-touch liberalism at its worst.Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
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The second was the rigidities of liberalism, with its emphasis on the individual at the expense of the network of relations in which that person was embedded.Thomas Meaney, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
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“Radicalism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/radicalism. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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