How to Use adventurism in a Sentence

adventurism

noun
  • That distinct brand of come-what-may adventurism is just what these times require.
    — Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2021
  • But this is Putin’s adventurism, and the left must stand firmly against it.
    — Matthew Duss, The New Republic, 1 June 2022
  • For him, jazz will always mean cross-pollination, adventurism and faith in what’s ahead.
    — Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 29 July 2019
  • In the end, reason triumphed over adventurism at the Spanish court.
    — Big Think, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The success of these operations should not serve as a green light for further adventurism.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 5 Jan. 2026
  • In his heedless, amoral, cowboy adventurism, he is meant to be a kind of mini-Reagan.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 27 Sep. 2017
  • Tehran’s adventurism through proxy forces in the Middle East has hardly been deterred.
    — Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2021
  • The line between pandemic deterrence and adventurism can be hard to draw.
    — The Economist, 18 June 2020
  • Has anything changed about Americans' appetite for this sort of adventurism?
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Human error at time of crisis caused by US adventurism led to disaster.
    — Anton Troianovski, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Jan. 2020
  • And yet, before last summer had even ended, the intrepid adventurism that brought the nation’s first big wave of tourism was supplanted with grousing and gripes.
    — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 16 Mar. 2026
  • What has this military adventurism done for the American people?
    — The Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 30 Jan. 2024
  • That leaves Biden with few options when confronting Putin over his revanchism and military adventurism.
    — Anna Nemtsova, The Atlantic, 16 June 2021
  • Iranian leaders use oil money to line their own pockets and fund destructive foreign adventurism rather than address their people’s needs.
    — Rick Perry, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2018
  • Neither war ended well, instead souring the public even more about American adventurism.
    — Steven Gillon / Made By History, TIME, 17 Feb. 2025
  • When the pact destroyed fragile alliances and encouraged German adventurism, war was certain.
    — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 15 Aug. 2019
  • In the near term, this will allow commanders to keep pace in day-to-day competition with the PLA and help deter its adventurism.
    — Roger I. Zakheim, National Review, 16 Aug. 2021
  • For us, Russian greatness is not tied to geopolitical adventurism or threats, but to prosperity and openness.
    — Quartz Contributor, Quartz, 2 Mar. 2022
  • Yet Russia’s failure to take over the entire country and the unified Western response may serve as a red flag to military adventurism.
    — New York Times, 23 May 2022
  • Yet Russia's failure to take over the entire country and the unified Western response may serve as a red flag to military adventurism.
    — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 24 May 2022
  • Military adventurism has an uncanny habit of doing exactly that.
    — Matt K. Lewis, Mercury News, 13 Jan. 2026
  • In his view, decades of overseas military adventurism has only cost the country enormous blood and treasure, and waiting for deals would prolong a national disaster.
    — Peter Baker, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2019
  • Yet Russia’s abject failure to take over the entire country and the unified Western response may serve as a red flag to military adventurism.
    — Peter Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 23 May 2022
  • So goes the ethos of Kisawa, a retreat radical in both its remoteness and freedom, where attentiveness is balanced with adventurism.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 17 June 2022
  • The latest outbreak — the scope of which is still unfolding — has led to calls inside and outside of China for better regulations or even an end to this kind of culinary adventurism.
    — Steven Lee Myers, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Jan. 2020
  • Finally, Russia must be told that further military adventurism will lead to its expulsion from the Swift banking system.
    — Adrian Karatnycky, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2018
  • Trump won the White House on the promises of sidestepping forever wars and avoiding international adventurism.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Putin’s adventurism has so far helped divert the attention of the Russian public away from endemic corruption and economic stagnation at home.
    — Ian Bremmer, Time, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Scale back regional adventurism.
    — Bobby Ghosh, Time, 11 Jan. 2026
  • This is meant to deter Chinese adventurism and is a welcome change from Barack Obama’s appeals to Beijing’s better angels.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 19 June 2019

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