How to Use anomie in a Sentence

anomie

noun
  • Amid the anomie of the pandemic, there was hunger for any frame of reference.
    — Photographs By Ashley Gilbertson, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2020
  • So what causes our halftime anomie, and can the causes be reasoned away?
    — Eric Felten, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2017
  • There is no national mood, just a mélange of anomie, distaste, and derangement.
    — Jia Tolentino, New Yorker, 5 July 2026
  • To have seen so early in his career the anomie at the heart of boredom, stasis, inertia—what a gift that was.
    — Vivian Gornick, The Atlantic, 16 May 2022
  • Crew members were felled with intestinal ailments, and Gray had fallen into a dazed anomie.
    — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2019
  • The commissioners, on the other hand, did not seem to be suffering from social-media anomie.
    — Christopher Hooks, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026
  • The public realm, charged with the impossible task of catering to both, falls into neglect, mistrust and anomie.
    — Momus, WIRED, 3 Jan. 2006
  • Durkheim argued that anomie was a major driver of suicide rates in European countries.
    — Jonathan Haidt, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2024
  • His tough-yet-sensitive image feels substantive, and not just a kind of bland, Post Malone-like anomie.
    — Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Crystal meth is in some ways a metaphor for our times—times of anomie and isolation, of paranoia and delusion, of communities coming apart.
    — Sam Quinones, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2021
  • This doesn’t accord with the stereotype of the Lost Generation, its members drinking away their anomie in Parisian cafés.
    — Deborah Cohen, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2022
  • But when introduced in the midst of currency crises and in countries that suffer from weak institutions and endemic anomie, such systems have a poor record.
    — Jacques De Larosière and Steve H. Hanke, WSJ, 21 Apr. 2021
  • In recent years, sound baths have made waves in meditation and therapeutic circles as antidotes to stress, depression, anomie, and more.
    — Jennifer Emerling, National Geographic, 6 Aug. 2019
  • The culture gets bored when the talk turns to spiritual impoverishment, fraying familial bonds, anomie.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 14 June 2019
  • But when introduced during currency crises in countries that suffer from weak institutions and endemic anomie, such systems have a poor record.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Though the cast changed every two seasons, Skins still circled teenage anomie, unexpected pregnancy, and excessive drug use like a myopic moth to a flame.
    — Nina Li Coomes, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2022
  • First, the subjects of deepest dread (corruption, decay, pollution, anomie, weakness) are identified with the disease.
    — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 18 Mar. 2020
  • Pottersville, not Bailey Park, resembles the modern anomie that Deneen decries.
    — Jack Butler, National Review, 25 Dec. 2020
  • Typically, it’s associated with worker anomie, or ennui, or burnout.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Andrew Upton’s adaptation of an early Anton Chekhov play about provincial anomie winds down its Broadway run.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2017
  • Some observers are tempted to put it down to a pathology in which the combination of post-Brexit psychosis and post-pandemic anomie has sapped all reason and purpose from those who govern.
    — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Writers, working in a vein that grew from American anomie, steadily chronicled the misfortunes of a population of women and men now genuinely adrift.
    — Vivian Gornick, The New York Review of Books, 9 Mar. 2021
  • An air of bleakness and spiritual anomie permeates the writing, occasionally tempered by the outlandishness of her subjects.
    — Negar Azimi, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Cody distributes them awkwardly among the members of a strained family, painting a tableau of white suburban anomie that feints at depth but, throughout the show’s two and a half hours, is always threatening to dissolve.
    — The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2019
  • But Mizumura expands her tale into an ambitious portrait of middle-class anomie in a Japan still reckoning with its past and the paradoxes of its identity.
    — New York Times, 16 June 2017
  • Beset by Park Avenue–induced anomie, Clare needed a change, which arrived in the charming person of a French art dealer with a gallery in Chelsea.
    — Lisa Henricksson, Air Mail, 27 June 2026
  • Doing so would speed up completion and reduce the cost of college, help combat anomie, better prepare students for the vicissitudes of college and life, and leave less time for performative jackassery.
    — Frederick M. Hess, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
  • To young people afflicted by social media anomie and fearful of climate doom, Kaczynski seemed to wield a predictive power that outstripped the evidence available to him.
    — Alex Traub, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2023
  • Brian Alexander’s recent account of a hospital in Bryan, a small town in Ohio’s northeast corner, offers a glimpse into how destructive anomie can be.
    — David Introcaso, STAT, 30 Dec. 2021
  • In their parallel stories, the Black intellectual’s crisis of faith meets the guilty anomie of the American expatriate.
    — The New Yorker, 4 July 2022

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