How to Use egalitarianism in a Sentence

egalitarianism

noun
  • For those holding the purse strings, egalitarianism is the name of the game.
    — Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Only once in the history of golf has there been a longer stretch of egalitarianism.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 18 June 2017
  • My partner calls his parents by their first names, which was a decision made decades ago in the spirit of egalitarianism.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 24 June 2023
  • Nor did Lee’s defeat lead to an embrace of racial egalitarianism.
    — Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 4 June 2017
  • Time was when sneers and jeers would greet such oenological egalitarianism.
    — Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 21 May 2018
  • While trafficking in rhetoric of unity and egalitarianism, Gantz is careful not to come off as too dovish.
    — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2019
  • In a nod to rising egalitarianism, women now make a covenant to obey God directly.
    — Caroline Kline, The Conversation, 14 Dec. 2021
  • In its place, Propst thought, egalitarianism and creative discourse among co-workers would reign.
    — Richard Cooke, The New Republic, 4 Jan. 2021
  • The beauty of the Spurs’ bubble ball approach lied in its egalitarianism.
    — Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 6 Dec. 2020
  • In other words, the most radical goal of the movement is egalitarianism.
    — Gloria Steinem, Time, 5 Mar. 2020
  • But also, there’s a kind of twisted egalitarianism to Larry’s bile.
    — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Or, in some cases, the team members buy the pretense of egalitarianism and then are enraged when the boss makes a decision that is at odds with their position.
    — Prudy Gourguechon, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
  • After all, egalitarianism is very Icelandic, as is a viking-like endurance against the elements.
    — Mosha Lundström Halbert, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2021
  • To Mary Pete this is simple egalitarianism and freedom of choice.
    — Dale Peck, The New Republic, 12 July 2019
  • But this tournament, the first with 32 teams, has been a rollicking display of egalitarianism.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Later, Dimitry’s wife, in a show of faux egalitarianism, makes a resistant crew member get into the hot tub, mid-shift.
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Among these errors was to see liberalism, in its classic definition of course, as achieved by egalitarianism.
    — Robert Sirico, National Review, 24 June 2024
  • Once, the United States claimed egalitarianism as a central ideal.
    — Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic, 12 July 2018
  • Overcome by egalitarianism, David invites a couple of homeless people into the store to share in its riches, which adds an element of chaos as the night wears on.
    — J.r. Jones, Chicago Reader, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Kropotkin tells us that mutual aid flourishes where egalitarianism and self-government prevail, but that it can be found in even the most repressive conditions.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The sameness of the facades was a reflection of the movement’s aspirations of egalitarianism.
    — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Westwater Canyon, where a two-day, 17-mile float on the Colorado River washed away any trace of our drift from egalitarianism.
    — Sunset Magazine, 28 July 2022
  • If multicultural egalitarianism is the future of liberal politics, the road to the future will be bumpy.
    — Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2017
  • On the other, the varied aims of Black and Native peoples (and those who were both) ran up against those of white settlers who refused to accept even a whiff of racial egalitarianism.
    — Philip Deloria, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
  • Then the economy began to unravel, enabling the rise of Hugo Chávez and his wayward egalitarianism.
    — Simran Sethi, Washington Post, 24 July 2019
  • The second is the idea of symmetry, which involves feelings of egalitarianism and reciprocity in a friendship.
    — Terry Ward, CNN, 4 Aug. 2024
  • There’s a tension with Studio 54 between elitism and egalitarianism.
    — Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2018
  • The only hope for a better life lies in an idyllic island in the Atlantic Ocean, known as the Offshore, where abundance and egalitarianism reign.
    — Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2017
  • Archer, shaped by the hierarchies of the Gilded Age, is disoriented by this new egalitarianism.
    — Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
  • By the 1950s, the American economy was not only the most advanced in the world, but was once more a bastion of egalitarianism.
    — The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019

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