How to Use isolationism in a Sentence

isolationism

noun
  • The isolationism of that day merged with the forces of economic protest.
    — Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • And then there is the risk factor of isolationism and xenophobia.
    — Ron Klain, Vox, 15 Oct. 2018
  • Populist isolationism sounds great, rouses crowds and may even win elections.
    — Charles Krauthammer, The Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2017
  • In the long run, isolationism does not work and makes America weaker, not stronger.
    — Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025
  • This belief caused him in his final years to resist the drift in his own party toward isolationism.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2018
  • But Roosevelt never lost sight of the fact that isolationism might well return once the conflict was over.
    — Time, 12 Apr. 2025
  • Bad things are the things that everyone already knows to be bad, such as slavery, bigotry, and isolationism.
    — Thomas Frank, Harper's Magazine, 22 June 2021
  • The isolationism that is left tends to concentrate in rural areas.
    — Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • We are drawn to each other, and this interlude of personal isolationism, brought by fear and disease, will pass.
    — WSJ, 14 Nov. 2023
  • And there’s an emotional reaction to it, to that isolationism.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Where Trump breaks with his rivals is not his isolationism, but his embrace of autocracy.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Sanders’ back-and-forth with his colleagues revealed a rift between his economic isolationism and the rest of the field’s half-a-loaf approach.
    — Nicholas Riccardi, The Denver Post, 15 Jan. 2020
  • Most of us live in the in-between, preserving our customs and culture, but not at the cost of complete isolationism, or human life.
    — Alana Vincent, Time, 16 Dec. 2022
  • These fears come from the notion that isolationism is growing within the GOP.
    — Michael Allen, WSJ, 15 July 2022
  • There is little demand for Trump-style isolationism in Canada.
    — The Economist, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Some of the groups will grudgingly do business with one another, but for the most part, Arden is isolationism run amok.
    — Christopher Healy, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2018
  • The notion of a worldwide neighborhood in which everyone belongs has been replaced by a call for isolationism.
    — Tyler Huckabee, Houston Chronicle, 10 Feb. 2018
  • This is different from isolationism, which argues that the United States should withdraw from the world.
    — Max Fisher, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2017
  • Wood’s position was in step with the isolationism of the 1930s, when abstract art was viewed by many as a Communist plot.
    — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2018
  • But with the value of higher education in question and enrollments on the decline, the costs of stagnation and isolationism are many times greater.
    — Michael Horowitz, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Lindbergh became a controversial figure in the 1930s for his isolationism and views on race.
    — Kate Bradshaw, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024
  • But now there's a new threat from the populist right that would embrace policies of isolationism abroad, that would embrace big government and protectionism at home, marginalize the right to life.
    — CBS News, 31 May 2026
  • America First is not isolationism.
    — NBC news, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Spike Jonze’s movie ‘Her’ explores social isolationism in a world dominated by AI that can learn from us.
    — Jevon Phillips, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2019
  • In contrast with Bolsonaro’s pugnacious isolationism, Lula has long sought to expand Brazil’s role on the world stage.
    — Meaghan Tobin, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The human factor The fight to keep the Icelandic language in circulation should not be confused with isolationism.
    — Caitlin Hu, Quartz, 2 June 2019
  • That streak of isolationism resonated with parts of his MAGA coalition.
    — Toluse Olorunnipa, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2026
  • America, still in the grip of isolationism, would not enter the Second World War until the following year.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 19 July 2017
  • Black Adam is all about the merits of sending American muscle to the world’s hotspots, and it can very easily be read as an argument for isolationism.
    — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2022
  • What then remains of America’s isolationism?
    — Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025

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