How to Use antiestablishment in a Sentence

antiestablishment

adjective
  • Americans are in a salty, antiestablishment state of mind.
    — Michelle Cottle, Mercury News, 9 Apr. 2026
  • But before there was a Steve Bannon, there was still an antiestablishment crowd.
    — NBC News, 31 Dec. 2017
  • Jackson is betting that his outside pitch will win over antiestablishment conservatives.
    — ABC News, 19 May 2026
  • In Italy, however, antiestablishment groups are poised to take power on their own for the first time in one of the EU’s major countries.
    — Marcus Walker, WSJ, 13 May 2018
  • The 2026 midterms are already being shaken up by populist firebrands and antiestablishment outsiders.
    — James Desio, Washington Post, 15 May 2026
  • These offices are not the big, antiestablishment utopian workspaces companies like WeWork were known for in the 2010s.
    — Jacqueline Munis, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2026
  • However, Jackson is betting that his outsider pitch will win over antiestablishment conservatives.
    — ABC News, 19 May 2026
  • But Platner has excited some supporters with an antiestablishment message that his campaign believes could carry him to victory.
    — ABC News, 5 Apr. 2026
  • But Platner has excited some supporters with an antiestablishment message his campaign believes could carry him to victory.
    — Arkansas Online, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Such an antiestablishment government could spook international investors and is opposed by parts of Italy’s business community.
    — Giovanni Legorano, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2018
  • His antiestablishment message has galvanized youth voters upset over corruption and income inequality.
    — Christine Armario and Joshua Goodman, BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2018
  • Tensions flared between European capitals last week when Italy’s new antiestablishment government refused to take in a boat of migrants stranded in the Mediterranean.
    — Andrea Thomas, WSJ, 19 June 2018
  • As many observers noted, Sanders’s aggressive, antiestablishment campaign against Clinton was much like Brown’s against her husband, in 1992.
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2018
  • The German political mainstream will now have to decide whether to continue trying to isolate the AfD, ignore it, or engage in hopes of defusing its antiestablishment message.
    — Anton Troianovski and Zeke Turner, WSJ, 24 Sep. 2017
  • That divide could be the decisive factor in whether two large antiestablishment parties—the 5 Star Movement and the League—manage to strike a deal to form a government, a prospect that has come to look more likely in recent weeks.
    — Eric Sylvers, WSJ, 3 Apr. 2018
  • The re-emergence of political risk in Italy thanks to the formation of an antiestablishment government risks resurrecting bad memories of the eurozone crisis, when contagion spread across the continent.
    — Richard Barley, WSJ, 18 May 2018
  • And Americans’ predilection for nepo candidates doesn’t necessarily hold during periods of antiestablishment frustration.
    — Michelle Cottle, Mercury News, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The 1960s marked a significant pivot in cultural mores, from the adherence to convention both socially and stylistically at the dawn of the decade to the age of antiestablishment fervor and personal empowerment as the period progressed.
    — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The big winner, with 30 percent of the vote, was the decade-old, antiestablishment Five Star Movement, which controls a network of wildly successful websites and social-media accounts that traffic in conspiracy theories and fake news.
    — Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Your favorite novelist, no matter how experimental or antiestablishment, all but certainly has some representative taking a 15 percent commission out of her advance, negotiating her contracts, talking her up over cocktails, talking her down from the ledge.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The international touring exhibition is now in residence at the Del Mar Fairgrounds through April 22, and the large-scale show has several interactive elements that focus on the purpose of Banksy’s anonymity as an antiestablishment artist.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Roy Moore’s triumph in the Republican Senate primary in Alabama was a warning shot to incumbents up for reelection in 2018 and a shot of adrenaline to antiestablishment conservatives thinking of mounting their own challenges.
    — Janet Hook, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2017
  • Voters were far more enthusiastic about the antiestablishment, anti-European Five Star Movement, which won more than 25 percent of the vote in national elections in 2013 and more than 32 percent in 2018.
    — Erik Jones, Foreign Affairs, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Without that dynamic, there’s less incentive for those GOP figures to embrace the kind of antiestablishment policies and priorities that animate Shadow MAGA — ideas that for years shaped the ideological direction of the party.
    — Emily Brooks, The Hill, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The scandals have led to protests in various parts of India, including demonstrations by a viral antiestablishment movement, the Cockroach Janta Party, demanding the resignation of the education minister, Dharmendra Pradhan.
    — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC news, 20 June 2026

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