How to Use extremism in a Sentence

extremism

noun
  • And extremism, in all forms, is a lie.
    — Billy Ray, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The rise in extremism, in both parties, is not good for most of the nation.
    — Harvey Levine, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2025
  • This kind of extremism only serves to harm a child’s chances for success.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Many of us who were raised in religious extremism don’t live in our bodies.
    — Michelle Dowd, Time, 14 June 2023
  • More news to know now Here's the new blueprint for fighting extremism.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2025
  • The podcast emerged from three years of their reporting on right-wing extremism.
    — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Democrats talk a lot about standing up to corruption and extremism.
    — State Rep. Jillian Gilchrest, Hartford Courant, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Shouldn’t Democrats have a counterweight against their own brand of extremism?
    — Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 6 Aug. 2024
  • There is also an urgent need to root out extremism in law enforcement and the armed forces.
    — The Editors, Scientific American, 17 Feb. 2021
  • This is the embodiment of this, within his mix of ego and extremism.
    — Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 31 Mar. 2025
  • In recent years far-right extremism has proved more frequent and more deadly than the left-wing version.
    — Juliette Kayyem, The Atlantic, 19 May 2026
  • Among Austin's first acts as defense chief was to order a review of extremism among troops.
    — Rachel Looker, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2023
  • Indeed, there's a case for being resolute in the face of extremism.
    — Star Tribune, 16 Jan. 2021
  • How did extremism move from the outer edge of our discourse to the very center of our politics?
    — The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2022
  • For years, the flow of extremism went from Pakistan into Afghanistan.
    — CBS News, 2 Dec. 2020
  • But the biggest danger for everybody in the end is extremism.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2024
  • For too long, the debate about free speech rights has been coopted by right-wing racial extremism and white liberal elitism.
    — Malkia Devich-Cyril, Wired, 31 Jan. 2021
  • The lesson of this primary season is that extremism is on the march in this country.
    — Bobby Zirkin, Baltimore Sun, 29 June 2026
  • Those studying this digital age of extremism said it is based in part on hero worship of those who have gone before them.
    — Natalie Eilbert, jsonline.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The study was even able to link these beliefs with the incitement of violence and extremism.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • But some corners do foster extremism.
    — Larry Magid, Mercury News, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Today Lysoe spends a lot of his time warning young people about the dangers of right-wing extremism.
    — Mark Lewis, Star Tribune, 19 July 2021
  • Arkansas students don't need right-wing extremism taught in their classrooms.
    — Arkansas Online, 16 Mar. 2026
  • These fantasies can all skew toward exclusionary extremism on the left and the right.
    — Eliza Goodpasture, ARTnews.com, 3 June 2026
  • What appears to be a harmless workout group may be a gateway to violent extremism, one pushup at a time.
    — Art Jipson, The Conversation, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The Marine Corps changes its rules on reporting extremism among the troops.
    — Will Carless, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2024
  • He was convicted three times and received a sentence of 19 years for extremism.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 14 Feb. 2026
  • The extremism of the draft has given rise to theories about who leaked it and why—to prevent further edits or to force them?
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 8 May 2022
  • There’s been so much extremism in the last five to eight years across the board, and people have been earmarked as being one thing or another.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The results were similar when respondents were asked about right- and left-wing extremism.
    — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 16 Sep. 2025

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