How to Use ideological in a Sentence

ideological

adjective
  • At some point, this is an ideological regime.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 4 Mar. 2026
  • That lack of an ideological center is borne out in other ways as well.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Unlike last year's race, the ideological balance of the court is not in play.
    — Gaby Vinick, ABC News, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Sinema has, for the last few years, had the same ideological record as Manchin.
    — Harry Enten, CNN, 3 Oct. 2021
  • People tend to though -- just to take a step back, people are framing this as ideological.
    — NBC news, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The justices split along ideological lines, and the two sides appeared to talk past each other.
    — Adam Liptak, New York Times, 30 June 2023
  • Not even a former child star can afford to stay on the ideological sidelines.
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Smaller ones have joined the war for ideological reasons and to avenge Khamenei’s death.
    — Sudarsan Raghavan, New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2026
  • That smaller share of the electorate tends to be more ideological than the populous as a whole.
    — Boyd K. Rutherford, Baltimore Sun, 22 Dec. 2024
  • This is exactly the kind of scene that, in another play, could lead to a shouty ideological cage match.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Next year’s mayoral election may not be decided by who can best claim an ideological lane.
    — Will Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2026
  • The split between the two factions is not ideological.
    — Michael Scherer, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Writers had to conform to ideological rules; many works were banned outright.
    — Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
  • But with so many potential ideological flips on the horizon, that’s not always the case.
    — Barnini Chakraborty, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 1 Mar. 2025
  • The Dolphins’ ideological shift didn’t just happen out of the blue.
    — Miami Herald, 20 May 2026
  • In both June rulings, the court was split along its 6-3 ideological lines.
    — Max Rego, The Hill, 6 May 2026
  • Democrats across the ideological spectrum won, too.
    — Stephen Fowler, NPR, 5 Nov. 2025
  • There wasn't a whole lot of ideological differences between the two.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Legal experts say the body doesn’t have a set ideological profile.
    — David A. Lieb, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2026
  • This time around, the ideological dynamic has changed for both parties.
    — New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Who are not super ideological but are just really there to solve problems.
    — Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
  • The ruling divided the court along ideological lines, and justices disagreed on how to rule and how much to say.
    — Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 4 Mar. 2026
  • This year, the court voted along ideological lines in 21% of cases.
    — Bynadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The vote was 6-3 along ideological lines.
    — Nina Totenberg, NPR, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The endorsements had been lined up; the ideological lanes had been mostly defined.
    — Maxwell Adler, Vanity Fair, 15 Apr. 2026
  • This does suggest some sort of robust ideological media system at work.
    — Suzanne Schneider, The New York Review of Books, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Never mind that this is the same ideological movement that’s always talking about free speech — the hypocrisy is nothing new.
    — Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 20 July 2023
  • That is why reform is needed – not as an ideological exercise, but as common sense.
    — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 27 Jan. 2026
  • In a letter to Shapps, the union accused him of waging ideological war against rail workers.
    — Reuters, CNN, 19 Aug. 2022
  • The worst outcomes come from treating this as an ideological rather than a practical matter.
    — Nik Froehlich, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026

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