How to Use fundamentalism in a Sentence

fundamentalism

noun
  • The path to this fundamentalism was paved with stones of hypocrisy.
    — Bethany McLean, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2023
  • And a lot of this book turns on a kind of an upswing in religious fundamentalism.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2021
  • Then, a new brand of religious fundamentalism takes hold in Tunisia.
    — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 17 Mar. 2024
  • And every fundamentalism does a violence to the text that supports it, right?
    — Celeste Sloman, Town & Country, 23 Sep. 2019
  • Is what was once an oasis of innovation and free-thinking now in hock to a fundamentalism as blunt as a machete?
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Is what was once an oasis of innovation and free-thinking now in hock to a fundamentalism as blunt as a machete?
    — Walden Green, Pitchfork, 10 Aug. 2025
  • The New Atheists craved the first kind of fundamentalism and now decry the latter.
    — Samuel James, National Review, 14 Feb. 2020
  • Let curiosity — not fundamentalism — be your guide to a brighter future.
    — Colin Bedell, Them., 25 Apr. 2025
  • In Mexico, there are many other forms of this fundamentalism.
    — Wendy Fry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Jan. 2022
  • Still, many of the militia’s members didn’t feel like their government was doing enough to protect them from the rising tide of fundamentalism.
    — Jessica Pressler, Daily Intelligencer, 12 Dec. 2017
  • The idea that despite Scopes’ conviction, the trial was a defeat for fundamentalism, lived on.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2024
  • Fear of Islamic fundamentalism is a populist refrain for the right.
    — Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2018
  • What’s funny is that even as both parties drift away from market fundamentalism, market-style reforms are the most fertile ground for compromise.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 20 July 2022
  • The only thing Serena ever wanted more than a baby was a pulpit for her own fundamentalism.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2025
  • The Mullahs regime is the center of export of terrorism and fundamentalism.
    — Eric Shawn, Fox News, 30 June 2018
  • The growth of fundamentalism in science has taken place at the same time as the growth of fundamentalism in politics and religion.
    — Arianna Huffington, TIME, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Much of the root cause could be traced to Islamic fundamentalism that arose in the 1980s in countries like Iran.
    — Justin Klawans, The Week, 24 Nov. 2022
  • Haart repeatedly notes that her issue is not with Judaism — or any particular faith — but with fundamentalism of any kind.
    — Meredith Blake Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2021
  • That story begins in Chicago, where Fisher grew up in a household defined by rigid fundamentalism.
    — Meredith Blakestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The Christian fundamentalism that begat the state law that John Scopes violated has not gone away.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2024
  • Her mother found help and resources with other home-schooling residents and slowly the family entered the world of fundamentalism.
    — Rachel Clarke, CNN Money, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Her cruel punishments, borne out of stubborn adherence to misguided religious fundamentalism, are the cause of all the movie's pain.
    — Clark Collis, EW.com, 1 Oct. 2024
  • The two men would go on to fuel the forces of religious fundamentalism and ethnic nationalism that were to pose such challenges to liberal societies.
    — Margaret MacMillan, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2018
  • Readers lacking knowledge of the Pilgrim family will miss a lot of the jokes, although the mockery of fundamentalism will be easily grasped.
    — Alaska Dispatch News, 19 Aug. 2017
  • The town is notably known for its connection with Mormon fundamentalism and polygamy, along with the neighboring city of Hildale, Utah.
    — Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
  • In his view Islamic fundamentalism was at war with both secularism and modernism, as embodied by the West.
    — Douglas Martin, BostonGlobe.com, 22 May 2018
  • DeLong makes a strong case that the turn in the 1980s to market fundamentalism was a dismal economic failure.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 12 Sep. 2022
  • To these men, Pagli’s death has offered them an opportunity to express their religious fundamentalism.
    — JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The victim, of both the rapist and Lloyd's fundamentalism, was in federal detention at the time, awaiting resettlement.
    — Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 22 Dec. 2017
  • The medium-term cause of the rise of Hindu fundamentalism is the steady growth and consolidation of the RSS.
    — Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 15 Aug. 2017

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