How to Use alt-right in a Sentence

alt-right

noun
  • Here’s what your car says about your politics The alt-right economy is failing.
    — Daryl Collins, Fortune, 23 June 2023
  • Carroll’s book makes the connection between the alt-right and some strands of science fiction.
    — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 31 Aug. 2025
  • In a second post, Grimes replied to another fan that asked them to denounce Nazi’s and the alt-right.
    — Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Attempts to build a new alt-right media ecosystem are similarly landing with a thud.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 5 June 2023
  • When Taylor Swift fails to post enough online about Gaza or alt-right memes, it's taken as an endorsement.
    — Stephen Kent, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The Prometheus story as interpreted in this alt-right, tech bro fantasy isn’t the only reading of the myth, of course.
    — James Folta, Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Von Nukem was seen in two famous photos of the alt-right rally, wearing a black shirt in a large group of men chanting and holding tiki torches.
    — Andy Rose, CNN, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Among the alt-right, however, this stance against ethnic identity has earned him virulent criticism.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 16 May 2023
  • Any discussion of the intellectual elements of the alt-right should clarify one point.
    — George Hawley, Foreign Affairs, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Because there’s lots of memes from what used to be the alt-right, where people would Photoshop his head onto Julius Caesar’s body.
    — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2023
  • This Prometheus project is more than civically minded businessmen proposing public art, but rather deeply tied to some of the ugliest strains of alt-right thinking.
    — James Folta, Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
  • In Hong Kong, demonstrators reclaimed alt-right meme Pepe the Frog as a pro-democracy symbol.
    — Kate Bartlett, NPR, 5 Oct. 2025
  • But on the second day of class this winter, internet trolls spouting alt-right and transphobic language raided those channels, flooding them with images of gore.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The book is now a mainstay on the alt-right in the United States and is promoted by alt-right groups such as Identity Evropa.
    — George Hawley, Foreign Affairs, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Westman doesn't fit neatly into alt-right or alt-left ideological movements, but trailing the incident are clear patterns and trends.
    — Natalie Eilbert, jsonline.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Much of the hard-core alt-right remembers and is vocally bitter about this, but everyone else has largely reached an undeclared yet firm position on the subject.
    — Laura Jedeed, The New Republic, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The video chat room was associated online with alt-right and white supremacist movements, and fans decried Doja’s presence in such a space.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Something similar could be said about the QAnon conspiracy and other bits of baroque alt-right outrageousness.
    — Mark Edmundson, Harper's Magazine, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The move was confirmed after West made antisemitic comments during an appearance on the alt-right web show InfoWars.
    — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 30 July 2023
  • More recently, however, both the manosphere and the alt-right have adopted the term cuck as a more general synonym for weakness, desperation and foolishness.
    — Brooke Scelza, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Many people have framed the rise of Red Shambhala as a direct response to Vril and Agartha, two concepts that have become a fixture of alt-right memes in the last year.
    — Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Enter the ‘alt-right’ White nationalist leaders, such as Richard Spencer, wanted an even bigger audience and influence.
    — Sophie Bjork-James, The Conversation, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Around the time of the 2016 election, YouTube became known as a home to the rising alt-right and to massively popular conspiracy theorists.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Nearly 1 in 5 Americans believed in QAnon four years ago, an alt-right extremist fantasy that was as popular as some major religions.
    — Megan Thiele Strong, Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Since then, referring to alt-right or right-wing conservative figures as based has become a sign of approval in online social-media forums like the pro-Trump subreddit, r/The_Donald.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 28 July 2023
  • Despite this sci-fi plot, the show is set in the very near future, in a world that’s plagued by all too familiar issues, from fights over bodily autonomy to the rise of alt-right personalities and oppressive authoritarian regimes.
    — Elaina Patton, NBC News, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Warrior Essentials is one of many companies that trade on unfounded theories about the dangers of vaccines, which have proliferated in the alt-right social media landscape since the pandemic — ideas that are not backed by science.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 4 Dec. 2024
  • As Gwyneth Paltrow long ago realized, insecurity and just-so stories sell; the most entrepreneurial culture warriors seem to have embraced the Goop model and repackaged it to the alt-right manosphere set.
    — Jan Dutkiewicz, The New Republic, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The Perfume Nationalist, alt-right technologist Curtis Yarvin and Steve Bannon.
    — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 17 Nov. 2025
  • Spencer is known as the creator of the alt-right, a 15-year-old movement described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as being unified by the core belief that white identity is under attack.
    — Brandy Zadrozny, NBC News, 12 Sep. 2024

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