How to Use boosterism in a Sentence

boosterism

noun
  • Her article asserts that hometown boosterism keeps people from assessing the crime problem accurately.
  • Strip away the boosterism and the point holds.
    — Noel Burgess, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • This past week has been a big one for carbon capture boosterism.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 24 Sep. 2020
  • The number-goes-up culture of crypto boosterism found its mark all over the world.
    — WIRED, 29 Sep. 2023
  • So there's evidence now that there was a lot of boosterism and a lot of optimism that was not warranted.
    — Alan Gionet, CBS News, 27 June 2026
  • Believing its own boosterism, the government failed to see the signs.
    — The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019
  • The mistake the play’s many gay critics have made is in thinking that transformative art should be a form of boosterism.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2018
  • But how much did this presidential boosterism influence the culture and the artists who make it?
    — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 25 Feb. 2025
  • But its ambitions have also grown to include a certain civic pride, if not outright boosterism.
    — Nicola Chilton, Time, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Party members chose her tax-cutting boosterism over his warnings that inflation must be tamed.
    — Jill Lawless, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Party members in the summer chose her tax-cutting boosterism over his warnings that inflation must be tamed.
    — Jill Lawless, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Calling out his uneven performance is now in bad taste, as is harping on the grossness of his dogecoin boosterism.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 10 May 2021
  • Critics, on the other hand, dismissed them as being too volatile and based in personal sentiment and boosterism.
    — Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 6 Nov. 2024
  • The network's Trump boosterism was hard to miss, yet so too was giving up lucrative commentator slots.
    — Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Throughout all of Lowe’s platitudes and boosterism, my attention was rapt, and my mind never wandered.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 18 Dec. 2025
  • His boosterism of Brexit helped achieve a surprise referendum win.
    — Washington Post, 4 May 2022
  • But some of his predecessors said such boosterism of markets from the White House set a dangerous precedent.
    — Michael Crowley, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
  • The Klan’s rule in Anaheim is a stain on a place that likes to celebrate the positive, in a county where boosterism is religion.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2025
  • A little boosterism can go a long way, especially when a marketer’s favorite team has their first real shot at winning a title in, well, forever.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The current mayor, 44, drew attention last year for his Twitter boosterism.
    — Karol Markowicz, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Their approach is not triumphalist—boosterism and mythologizing were anathema to most of the editors and writers of the guides.
    — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2021
  • The second-term Greenwich Democrat said little about the budget, devoting his speech to boosterism.
    — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 10 Feb. 2024
  • Driven by Berlin’s genial boosterism, the Critics Choice Assn.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2021
  • At the same time, pettiness, ugliness and simple boosterism do little to improve your standing as a leader or your company’s fortunes.
    — Pankaj Srivastava, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Viewers in the late Soviet era had become accustomed to a heavy lexicon of bureaucratese and boosterism that verged on the absurd.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2019
  • At the Convention, there was the usual partisan boosterism, but there was also an unmistakable undertow of gloom.
    — Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2021
  • The cloud of boosterism The conventional sports wisdom in Chicago was that the awful Bears would beat the awful 49ers at home.
    — James Warren, The Hive, 4 Dec. 2017
  • Throughout 150 years of boosterism, through our latest cataclysm of fires, the palm tree image makes visual geolocation instant and easy.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Meanwhile, the national trend of boosterism — promoting a city’s image to attract new business or tourism — had come to San Antonio.
    — Paula Allen, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Oct. 2021
  • Covid-19’s massive disruption to the global economy, paired with aggressive boosterism of green tech by the world’s governments, could be a turning point.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 7 Aug. 2020

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