How to Use late capitalism in a Sentence

late capitalism

noun
  • This led to fervent talk about our perpetual lack of funds, the ravages of late capitalism, and how to assuage said ravages.
    — Sam Lipsyte, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Dan has legitimate reason to wonder whether his college applications are worth filing in an era of late capitalism and a dying mother.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Logan and Molotch argue that the city-as-growth-machine is an inherent feature of late capitalism in the United States.
    — Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2025
  • McCurdy is much more interested in late capitalism than in Lolita.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 27 Jan. 2026
  • We were promised by Smith that the market ever leads towards a kind of truth, but in late capitalism the crucial values are mediocrity and enshitification.
    — Literary Hub, 9 Mar. 2026
  • An experimental art project about the depravity of late capitalism?
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Launches like Kraft Mac & Cheese Pumpkin Spice and Pumpkin Spice Spam just scream late capitalism to me.
    — Chloe Sorvino, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Look, homes, these random fixations sound to me like generalized anxiety disorder, says Claudio, caused by the conditions inherent to late capitalism.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Mar. 2026
  • So the question is why and how our moment of—pick your poison—late capitalism, permanent emergency, the death of the Anthropocene—has turned to an old form to describe the oxymoronic simultaneity of pathos and bathos, horror and the risible.
    — Eugenie Brinkema, ARTnews.com, 14 June 2026

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