How to Use interventionism in a Sentence

interventionism

noun
  • What’s needed and has been needed for a long while is interventionism, big-time.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Vietnam is a case in point of how doves and hawks can both be right about American interventionism.
    — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 14 Mar. 2021
  • Which leads us to Trump’s interventionism.
    — Merrill Matthews, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2026
  • And interventionism can spawn more terrorists, not less.
    — Newsweek Contributors, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
  • This level of interventionism, much like the eurobonds, was something Germany had long balked at.
    — Matthias Matthijs, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Indeed, Americans have far less appetite now for the liberal interventionism of that era.
    — Kanishk Tharoor, The New Republic, 22 Feb. 2021
  • The left The trend of economic interventionism quickly caught on in the United States.
    — John Broich, The Conversation, 30 July 2019
  • The new fad of nationalism on the right has brought many conservatives into agreement with the left on non-interventionism and realism.
    — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 26 June 2019
  • For Americans, this isn’t about empire or interventionism.
    — Dustin Olson, Boston Herald, 25 Jan. 2026
  • But Trump’s arbitrary brand of interventionism comes with obvious dangers.
    — John Cassidy, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Unconstrained by that rivalry, some who had opposed interventionism during and after the Vietnam War changed their minds.
    — Jonathan M. Dicicco, Washington Post, 5 July 2018
  • The irony of the former secretary of state’s involvement in the project nags at the film, which flirts with criticisms of the United States’ hawkish interventionism.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Still, Blinken and others have suggested that the era of American interventionism is probably fading.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 24 Nov. 2020
  • Trump provided a critique of the consistent interventionism that defined post–Cold War foreign policy.
    — Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Carter wanted to end the Cold War, in Bird’s analysis, but Brzezinski held tight to habits of anti-communism and interventionism.
    — Washington Post, 18 June 2021
  • The plaints from the administration and its most committed journalistic supporters that the coverage has been unfair and the product of a press biased toward interventionism ring hollow.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 24 Aug. 2021
  • Though isolationism will continue to pose challenges to interventionism and America's traditional role as defender of the free world, there will at least be a sense freedom cannot be safeguarded by rhetoric.
    — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Others in Latin America, such as Brazil’s Lula, are angry at Yankee interventionism.
    — Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 4 Jan. 2026
  • This backward-spooling collapse into strongman interventionism is the result of Congress’s baseline failure to shield its own constitutional powers.
    — Chris Lehmann, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • And governments abroad accustomed to Trump’s lack of predictability now face a president whose entire philosophy toward foreign interventionism appears to have turned on a dime.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Ultimately, Gabbard and many veterans of the War on Terror share a sense of having been betrayed and lied to, as well as a healthy skepticism of war and military interventionism abroad.
    — Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Still, skeptics are right to point out that the dollar’s role has indirectly funded American interventionism and that dollar sanctions have been overused, provoking the ire of American allies.
    — Joshua Zoffer, The New Republic, 3 Feb. 2020
  • May is seeking to reinforce the Tories as the party of business by contrasting her approach to the state interventionism on display at Labour’s annual conference in Brighton this week.
    — Alex Morales, Bloomberg.com, 27 Sep. 2017
  • The move away from interventionism has drawn criticism from hawks who remain committed to strategies that forefront military action and American dominance around the world, despite that approach’s sorry track record.
    — Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic, 13 June 2022
  • Libertarians take this proposition to its limits and find allies among many on the left who oppose interventionism, want to cut military spending, and favor redeploying the government’s efforts and resources at home.
    — Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs, 20 Jan. 2017
  • While Uber and Lyft will likely pour substantial incentives into the city to regain market share, Austin’s deep independent streak could make the taint of the companies’ interventionism hard to shake.
    — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 28 May 2017
  • Increasingly, the party is under pressure, not just from the Left but also the Right, to adopt a more aggressive economic and corporate interventionism to champion workers.
    — Zaid Jilani, Washington Examiner, 31 Dec. 2020
  • Proponents of Middle Eastern regimes will argue that the growing gap between the region's leadership and its people is a lesser danger to states than the risk posed by clumsy Western interventionism.
    — Frederik Pleitgen, CNN, 5 Aug. 2021
  • Taken together, these responses suggest the revival of old fears of American interventionism, prompting allies and adversaries alike to ponder where Washington might act next.
    — Freddie Clayton, NBC news, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Also, the interventionism of some countries of the European Union discourages investments, slowing down the growth of renewables and the energy transition itself.
    — Byignacio Galán, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2022

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