How to Use exceptionalism in a Sentence

exceptionalism

noun
  • That will likely mean putting to bed once and for all the idea of tech exceptionalism.
    — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 18 Mar. 2023
  • But suffice to say, their recent run of exceptionalism may be over.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2021
  • For a long time, that exceptionalism was much more than slick marketing.
    — Brendan Kuty, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • War, used as language, can amount to a similar kind of exceptionalism.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2020
  • Your book talks a lot about the idea of American exceptionalism.
    — Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 16 Aug. 2017
  • Some giants stand so far above the rest that their exceptionalism is a foregone conclusion.
    — Eric Tingwall, Car and Driver, 5 July 2020
  • The era of American exceptionalism in the stock market could be over for good.
    — Danielle Chemtob, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Could there be a more apt metaphor for American exceptionalism?
    — Judy Berman, Time, 13 May 2021
  • So that's an exceptionalism that in quite severe terms suggests sacrifice to right wrongs.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 1 June 2026
  • He has been raised by parents and a school system steeped in the myths of American exceptionalism.
    — Amir-Hussein Radjy, The New Republic, 6 Jan. 2021
  • Indeed, they are sold the allure of exceptionalism.
    — Brendan Kuty, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • And from that has arisen the anxiety that our exceptionalism is at best simply odd, and at worst simply arrogant.
    — Allen C. Guelzo, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2018
  • Few things capture the notion of American exceptionalism as well as its team sports.
    — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2020
  • This British exceptionalism was, well, just part of the natural order.
    — Philippe Sands, The New York Review of Books, 23 June 2020
  • Others said the idea of American exceptionalism shouldn’t be mentioned at all in lessons.
    — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Obama’s campaign, which rode the story of his own exceptionalism to victory, marked the high reach of that effort.
    — Nathan Heller, Vogue, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Yankees exceptionalism now exists not on the field, but in the team store — on slogans and souvenirs, not titles and trophies.
    — Brendan Kuty, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The Present Is this the end of the myth of American exceptionalism?
    — Big Think, 24 June 2024
  • But baked into the series is a hefty dose of American exceptionalism.
    — Outside Online, 16 July 2022
  • This exceptionalism is a choice, one made each time nothing is done to limit access to military weapons after the latest burst of killing.
    — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 10 Aug. 2019
  • The irony being, of course, that everyone around Kushal is equally convinced of his or her own exceptionalism.
    — Deborah Treisman, New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2025
  • The California exceptionalism that so often runs through this sort of speech was still there, but tempered.
    — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2021
  • But in the end the most important thing is someone with a message that, in the end, goes to the root of American exceptionalism.
    — How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 15 June 2023
  • The appall reflects the sense of exceptionalism built into the fabric of Austin's psyche.
    — Peter Holley, Houston Chronicle, 6 June 2020
  • This week, even Penny’s exceptionalism is revealed to be an illusion.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2026
  • There’s New York sports fans exceptionalism, and then there’s whatever Mets fans have going on.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026
  • The truest test of American exceptionalism will be whether the country’s democracy can survive against these odds.
    — Jon D. Michaels, Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
  • Her visual album Black Is King, of course, is no exception to her rule of exceptionalism.
    — Cliché Wynter, Allure, 31 July 2020
  • Coaches often shrug when trying to explain his exceptionalism.
    — Alec Lewis, New York Times, 20 May 2026
  • As Howard Marks wrote in a recent memo, American exceptionalism is also at play.
    — Dan Runkevicius, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025

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