How to Use denialist in a Sentence

denialist

1 of 2 noun
  • The denialist playbook is now erupting around the coronavirus.
    — Sean B. Carroll, Scientific American, 8 Nov. 2020
  • But nearly every other big-ticket election denialist who has run and lost thus far has conceded.
    — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Nobody can accuse him of being a crypto climate denialist or Big Oil stooge.
    — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 20 Nov. 2012
  • Human error being blown up by election denialists, by social media.
    — William Turton, WIRED, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Moore draws a lesson from the eventual defeat of HIV denialists.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2023
  • The world has lost precious years in the fight to mitigate climate change, and here too Trump has been a denialist even as the evidence of such change rages all around us.
    — Editorial Board Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 9 Oct. 2020
  • Soon after, a video of Joe defying the mask mandate in a local supermarket ends up online and draws praise by denialists.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2025
  • In Arizona, election-denialist candidates for governor and secretary of state may pull out a win.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 11 Nov. 2022
  • What becomes clear is that all the way back in the 1950s, big tobacco started to build a kind of denialist playbook about the health risks of smoking.
    — Kit R. Roane, Scientific American, 17 Nov. 2020
  • One of the main strategies that science denialists use is to hijack people’s attention by creating the appearance of a debate where none exists.
    — Anastasia Kozyreva, Fortune, 21 Feb. 2023
  • With comments such as those, Hannity positioned himself squarely on the election-denialist fringe.
    — Washington Post, 2 May 2022
  • My belief is that those who are affected most negatively by the use of name-calling (denier, denialist, warmista, watermelon etc) are in fact those that spout them.
    — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 24 Mar. 2011
  • There are other factors at play, beyond loathing of regulation, with men disproportionately in the ranks of denialists.
    — David Robert Grimes, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The subject of taxes poses a difficult challenge to any inequality denialist.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Merely for presenting these findings, Clancy was labelled an ally of pedophilia, a trauma denialist.
    — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Like the raging denialist in the White House, the cantankerous anarchocommunalist has quit the game after the final score left him short.
    — Steven Levy, Wired, 5 Jan. 2021
  • But with each year, the ranks of climate denialists have thinned, the will to political action has grown, green technology has improved and cheapened, and the pace of its adoption has accelerated.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2023
  • The nonprofit also found advertisements for climate-denialist books on the product pages of more scientifically sound climate texts.
    — Brian Contreras, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2021
  • Many millions of people have voted against crazy climate denialist politicians, yet the structure of the Senate and the power of the fossil fuel industry still stands in the way of meaningful change.
    — Liza Featherstone, The New Republic, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Trump has restaffed the military with loyalists, slashed the IRS’s workforce, and filled the CDC with science denialists.
    — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2025
  • These denialists claim that Jewish people are inventing or exaggerating a genocide to promote Jewish interests.
    — Ellen Friedrichs, Parents, 14 Oct. 2023
  • The National Review contributor drew controversy by exposing his right-wing views and posting global-warming denialist social media posts.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 5 June 2024
  • Even in the notoriously climate-denialist US, two-thirds of Americans—including almost half of all Republicans—think the government should do more.
    — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 22 Jan. 2021
  • Threatening to unseat incumbent Senator Maggie Hassan, Bolduc is an election denialist who has repeatedly—and bizarrely—falsely claimed children are using litter boxes in schools.
    — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Peters, a former county clerk and election denialist, was convicted on multiple charges for allowing unauthorized access to voting machines following the 2020 presidential election.
    — Christa Swanson, CBS News, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Field shows, for example, how the Claremont Institute became a nest of conspiracy theorists and election denialists, with one of their own Straussians—the constitutional scholar John Eastman—providing Trump with a bogus legal justification for overturning the 2020 presidential election.
    — George Packer, The Atlantic, 24 Nov. 2025

denialist

2 of 2 adjective
  • Every local literary festival has a denialist facade in which guest authors are invited to make statements in support of the nation.
    — Uriel Kon september 2, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Nothing could be more indicative of the nature and power of late value form than the prospect that even the most unashamedly denialist administration might jump onto its bandwagon.
    — Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
  • If my prediction holds water, then similar approaches might be implemented with climate change skeptics and other denialist movements.
    — The Intersection, Discover Magazine, 6 May 2011
  • After Kennedy defended his fringe view, Senator Bill Cassidy fact-checked and debunked Kennedy’s denialist arguments in real time.
    — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Excess mortality bloomed in Republican counties and communities saturated with denialist media.
    — Jennifer W. Tsai, STAT, 18 Jan. 2026

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