satanism

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Recent Examples of satanism The claim: Images show evidence of 'satanism in public schools' An Aug. 22 Facebook video (direct link, archive link) shows a person talking alongside images of schoolchildren wearing horns and sitting around a pentagram. Chris Mueller, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2023 Vladimir Putin attacked the U.S. for satanism and denounced the many genders in fashion in the West. William Vaillancourt, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2022 Popular culture and social media have also ferried ideas about satanism and widespread child abuse from fringe to the mainstream. Brandy Zadrozny, NBC News, 14 Sep. 2022 That’s the good satanism. James Wood, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022 See All Example Sentences for satanism
Recent Examples of Synonyms for satanism
Noun
  • Whatever their theme — spectral invasion, diabolism, shape-changing — Blackwood expertly builds up an atmosphere of the otherworldly coupled with the spiritually threatening.
    Washington Post, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2020
  • In this riposte to #MeToo diabolism, Tarantino finally finds a social context that challenges his audience.
    Armond White, National Review, 26 July 2019
Noun
  • Or watch Margaret Hamilton terrorize Dorothy before getting the backstory behind her wickedness.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 28 Feb. 2025
  • There is killing and hatred and strife on every level and spiritual wickedness in high places.
    Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • In a quiet and picturesque fishing village in Northern France, a very special child is born, unleashing a secret war between extraterrestrial forces of good and evil.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 7 Mar. 2025
  • America’s stable vision of the world relied on the belief that good and evil are clearly delineated—a belief that was easier to maintain in the absence of complicating information.
    Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Segregationists resisted integration by calling it a threat, arguing that interracial relationships would foster immorality.
    Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 8 Feb. 2025
  • Just as important, many have come to understand that the outside world hardly resembles the wasteland of deprivation, immorality, and criminality that official propaganda depicts.
    Jieun Baek, Foreign Affairs, 28 Nov. 2016
Noun
  • This means that during daylight saving time, many young people get up and travel to school in pitch darkness.
    Beth Ann Malow, CBS News, 8 Mar. 2025
  • The field is increasingly engulfed in darkness, and—with the score tied—the players must choose between the reckless absurdity of playing a night game without lights and the eternal purgatory of leaving the final contest unresolved.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Or the constitutional dystopia in which we are now caught, beside which even the ugliest onscreen villainy pales into insignificance?
    Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Some of the most compelling performances of Hartnett’s career, though, dip more fully into villainy.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2024

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“Satanism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/satanism. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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