How to Use individualism in a Sentence

individualism

noun
  • He was respected for his self-reliance and individualism.
  • And that, in a way, goes back to this whole idea of individualism too.
    — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2024
  • That was the way I was raised, also with the idea of rugged individualism.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 24 May 2026
  • This age is one of tremendous growth and fun, as well as challenges that come in the form of strong individualism, big ideas and mood swings.
    — Meghan Leahy, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Inside the roaring fire of individualism, the still small voice of guilt.
    — Marco Roth, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
  • But the virtue of individualism doesn't take away our obligation to act for the common good.
    — David G. Allan, CNN, 19 Sep. 2020
  • And yet, the same peal of individualism that rang in his predecessor’s words still echoes in his.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 9 June 2021
  • Happily, Zhao has a sharp sense of when and how to hit the brakes on the wrong, corny kind of rugged individualism.
    — Michael Phillips, Detroit Free Press, 18 May 2018
  • In the age of individualism, how did your partnership come about?
    — Stephan Rabimov, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2021
  • But the past week has cast Rodgers’s individualism—and his posturing—in a new light.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2021
  • All of the guest hosts have brought individualism, energy and an authentic love of our show to each of their episodes.
    — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2021
  • All of the guest hosts have brought individualism, energy and an authentic love of our show to each of their episodes.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Our society seems set up for individualism (even more so in the midst of a pandemic).
    — Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com, 15 Mar. 2022
  • But the flip side of individualism is greater social freedom.
    — Michael Gerson, Alaska Dispatch News, 10 Oct. 2017
  • What the science of social pain begins to reveal is the dark error at the heart of individualism.
    — Will Storr, The Cut, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Our health care system nurtures a kind of individualism that leads some to question experts and assume their own risks.
    — Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Yet individualism, the other side of that dyad, will not leave Thompson at peace either.
    — Kenneth W. MacK, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2019
  • However, this year’s move to Texas gave the event a sense of an outsider’s rugged individualism.
    — Alex J. Rouhandeh, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Oregon is a place where rugged individualism springs forth from a land of boundless awe, and where inspiration seems to seep from the soil.
    — OregonLive.com, 19 Dec. 2017
  • The character often ponders whether his individualism still has value in such a rigid field of work.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 27 May 2022
  • Emily says this view is very much a part of a Midwestern value of rugged individualism.
    — Josh Fischman, Scientific American, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The limits of individualism ought to be clear with the formula shortage, too.
    — Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic, 26 May 2022
  • And part of that individualism is careerism.
    — Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Players who swing too far to one side of the individualism-community spectrum rarely win.
    — Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 12 May 2026
  • Now, Web3 has given rise to a new age of cyber individualism.
    — Jim Tomanchek, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Part of the whole thing is to show more personality and individualism.
    — Fox News, 2 May 2018
  • Keep reading here, as Julie reviews two new books on the changes that define an age of romantic individualism.
    — Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Silence and endurance are the hallmarks of rugged individualism, not of patience.
    — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 5 July 2021
  • The cowboy, that paragon of rugged individualism, stands for stoicism and a wordless sweaty brotherhood.
    — Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 27 June 2025
  • Filial piety and individualism can exist side-by-side, and Mulan is far stronger and more admirable for having both.
    — Teresa Lo, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2020

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