How to Use conservatism in a Sentence

conservatism

noun
  • By then, a conservatism had set in.
    — Eric Benson, Rolling Stone, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Too many in the media see conservatism as a dirty word.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 23 Feb. 2026
  • On this front, conservatism has much to offer.
    — Abby McCloskey, Twin Cities, 7 May 2026
  • Conservatism has always had a big tent.
    — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2026
  • The movement had been at odds with Kirk’s brand of conservatism for some time.
    — Richard Hall, Time, 13 Sep. 2025
  • To conserve, after all, is the essence of conservatism.
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The conservatism in this season seemed in tune with changes in society at large.
    — Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Age has brought thoughts of conservatism scurrying into the back of his mind.
    — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Over the past decade, his message of conservatism among young people has spread across the country.
    — Jay Stahl, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The good news is that conservatism’s revival doesn’t depend on any party.
    — Abby McCloskey, Twin Cities, 7 May 2026
  • Cameron’s school of conservatism now appears to be dead—at the hands of Vance, among others.
    — Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2025
  • This attempt to hijack conservatism by a radical fringe is not new.
    — Cal Thomas, Twin Cities, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Guigal’s strategy isn’t built on pompous conservatism, but in long-term thinking.
    — Paul Caputo, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Riots fed law-and-order conservatism.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
  • In the nineteen-eighties, Ronald Reagan had seen conservatism as a three-legged stool.
    — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2025
  • This suggests the decline in small-c conservatism is perhaps even greater than the generalized drop-off that shows up in the polling.
    — Abby McCloskey, Twin Cities, 7 May 2026
  • Lynn told me that Colson shared his father’s moodiness, if not his stifling conservatism.
    — Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
  • America has a long history of cheese-conservatism.
    — Olivia Potts, Longreads, 28 May 2026
  • In that context, the rhymes between Iger and D’Amaro didn’t smack of conservatism but came as a relief.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 13 May 2026
  • The list of names reads like a who’s who of prominent figures of Latin American conservatism.
    — Daniel Rivero, Miami Herald, 30 May 2026
  • Populists and nationalists have embraced the relativism conservatism used to push against on the left.
    — Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Buckley, Reagan and others made conservatism cool.
    — Matt Fleming, Oc Register, 21 Dec. 2025
  • Right now the Republican Party is light-years away from that, and those who cherish conservatism should say so.
    — Peter Wehner, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Conservatism is wary of concentrated power and of moving too quickly.
    — Abby McCloskey, Twin Cities, 7 May 2026
  • Defectors from the ‘New Right’ say that sexism is a feature, not a bug of modern-day conservatism.
    — Brittany Luse, NPR, 19 May 2026
  • For years now, Fuentes has been both an embarrassment to the right and an indicator of what’s brewing in the id of conservatism.
    — Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The speakers and attendees outlined their vision for the world at a time when national conservatism has reached its zenith of influence.
    — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 3 Sep. 2025
  • And really, conservatism has never been a fully unified movement.
    — Suzanne Schneider, The New York Review of Books, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Ben, what initially attracted you to conservatism?
    — David Remnick, New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2026
  • The sterile conservatism of Labour has opened the door to the boisterous reaction of Reform.
    — Oliver Eagleton, Time, 26 Nov. 2025

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