How to Use denialism in a Sentence

denialism

noun
  • Two forms of denialism are on the ballot in next week’s midterm elections.
    — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2022
  • There are two main wellsprings the Covid denialism movement drew from.
    — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Many researchers say this sort of denialism has been effective.
    — Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2024
  • In the meantime, denialism is likely to change shape slightly.
    — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Hover over the speakers to see their names Election denialism will be on full display.
    — Clara Ence Morse, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
  • In some ways, this is sort of the center of election denialism on the GOP side of things.
    — NBC News, 11 Sep. 2022
  • Luongo's seemed to be distinct in that his primary bait was a heavy dose of climate denialism.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 25 Apr. 2022
  • After three years of Bolsonaro’s denialism rule, my warnings seem more prescient than alarmist.
    — Heslley MacHado Silva, Scientific American, 12 May 2023
  • And yet, in some quarters, climate-change denialism continues to flourish.
    — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2023
  • How do reporters cover races prominently built on election denialism?
    — Amanda Luberto, AZCentral.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • These days, there’s little trace of climate denialism among the Hollywood studios.
    — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 June 2024
  • For far too long, Swampscott and Lynn have engaged in as much denialism and finger-pointing as pipe-fixing.
    — Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2023
  • In this case, Lake wanted to shrug off a series of questions from Bash about her campaign-trail election denialism.
    — Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Meanwhile, Heap often toed the line of election denialism as a state lawmaker and while campaigning for his new post.
    — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 23 Dec. 2024
  • And the state really became the center for election denialism theories and claims.
    — Ximena Bustillo, NPR, 7 June 2024
  • Experts called it an example of how midterm voters in various parts of the country appeared to be turned off by election denialism.
    — Libby Cathey, ABC News, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Moran rejects the climate-change denialism that many head-in-the-sand Republicans embrace.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2023
  • Rubashkin said Lake is well-known in the state and closely identified with the kind of election denialism that voters haven’t rewarded.
    — The Arizona Republic, 8 Mar. 2024
  • His policy ideas stand, but the election denialism he's complained about since the 2020 election took a beating.
    — CBS News, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Democracy and election denialism could be defining issues in the 2024 race.
    — Libby Cathey, ABC News, 5 Dec. 2023
  • In these times of climate denialism in Washington, some look for signs of reason in California.
    — John P. O’Brien, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Because of his election denialism, he's been kicked off a lot of TV networks, he's been kicked out of a lot of the big stores around the US.
    — Leah Feiger, WIRED, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Trump may be the key actor and figurehead of the movement, but the strain of election denialism in the GOP goes much deeper than one man alone.
    — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The ebullient throngs at Harris’ events — as well as her climbing poll numbers — threaten the worldview that sustains election denialism, and so they must be dismissed.
    — Michelle Goldberg, The Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2024
  • For its part, the Gallego campaign focused on Lake’s election denialism in a digital ad released Tuesday ahead of her speech.
    — Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 16 July 2024
  • And yet… Washington still hasn’t reached a consensus on what to do with the animating force behind the weeks of planning, day of chaos, and fallout of outright denialism.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Refusing denialism, practicing care Buckman has long made work about gendered violence.
    — Olga Garcia-Mayoral, Miami Herald, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Redistricting shifted Clyde’s voter base from people who aligned with his gun-toting brand to residents who view guns and election denialism as abnormal.
    — Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 16 May 2026
  • For all the talk that the 2022 elections were a nationwide refutation of election denialism, the attacks against our elections and our democracy are far from over.
    — Mallory McMorrow, CNN, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Travis is still out there, and Travis really is the character that brings us to the present with the advent of antisemitism, Holocaust denialism, Neo-Nazism.
    — Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Jan. 2023

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