How to Use New Deal in a Sentence

New Deal

noun
  • The New Deal did it – Democrats can do it again.
    — Nicholas Jacobs, The Conversation, 2 June 2026
  • Much of the New Deal was made possible by the commerce clause.
    — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
  • At the peak of the New Deal era, Roosevelt would hold these chats on the radio twice a year.
    — Mikayla Bunnell, Hartford Courant, 3 Feb. 2026
  • The able-bodied white male stood for the virility of the New Deal nation-state.
    — John P. Murphy, ARTnews.com, 5 Apr. 2026
  • My Second New Deal addresses this head on.
    — Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2026
  • The bureaucrats of the New Deal understood that very well.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Over the course of the early ’40s, funding for New Deal arts programs dried up.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2026
  • In part that is because the New Deal was more attractive to urban than to farm voters.
    — Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • The New Deal era brought this equilibrium crashing down.
    — Andrea Katz, The Conversation, 21 Oct. 2025
  • President Biden’s New Deal for Africa is a key pillar of this.
    — Ivor Ichikowitz, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Living New Deal is leading the campaign to save the building, but the battle will be tough.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2026
  • With that, Flanagan became the head of a major New Deal program.
    — Adam Hochschild, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Ryan is pitching tax cuts and ditching anything nearing the Green New Deal.
    — Fox News, 4 Nov. 2022
  • The New Deal only begins to look vaguely acceptable when the growth is in per capita terms.
    — Brian Domitrovic, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
  • The subject matter of New Deal art was more constrained and at times boosterish.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Both issues can be resolved by implementing the Green New Deal.
    — Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 12 July 2024
  • But Adams was disillusioned by Roosevelt and the New Deal.
    — John Blake, CNN Money, 18 Jan. 2026
  • But like its predecessor, the Green New Deal, the plan won’t be legally binding.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2026
  • One goal of the Gray New Deal is to make sure that a middle-class worker can remain a middle-class retiree.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Biden passed the largest investment in infrastructure since The New Deal.
    — Tracey Harrington McCoy, Peoplemag, 21 July 2023
  • The New Deal led to the biggest burst of public pools in American history.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 22 July 2023
  • Captains of capital were still outraged and launched a war to roll back New Deal reforms, arguably up until the present day.
    — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Business leaders, who also feared a downturn, were praying that the New Deal would not continue.
    — Amity Shlaes, National Review, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Critics dismissed New Deal art as propaganda in its day, and for decades afterward.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Back then, Harris supported a public health care option and a Green New Deal.
    — Charlotte Alter / Pittsburgh, TIME, 10 Oct. 2024
  • All four were architects of the New Deal and members of Roosevelt’s inner circle.
    — Scott Borchert, WSJ, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The New Deal-era building appeared remarkably unchanged, except for all the laptops.
    — Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Jewish leaders rose through the labor movement, helped found and lead unions, and became architects of the New Deal coalition.
    — Jacki Karsh, New York Daily News, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The paper compares the current moment to the New Deal and Progressive Era.
    — Jake Angelo, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2026
  • The result is an uncommonly lovely New Deal mission statement.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2026

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