How to Use liberalism in a Sentence

liberalism

noun
  • His life serves as a lens through which to look at liberalism.
    — Time, 29 Oct. 2022
  • This is not the voice of genuine liberalism or the search for truth.
    — Daniel J. Mahoney, National Review, 17 Oct. 2020
  • And, look, the board is not known as a bastion of liberalism.
    — John Baer, Philly.com, 29 June 2018
  • That contrasts with what can be called a liberalism that takes.
    — Howard Husock, New York Daily News, 28 May 2025
  • Liberalism is a work in progress.
    — Big Think, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The great project of liberalism (meant here in the usual sense) is to reverse this.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 8 Aug. 2022
  • All of these are the result of wild, out of control liberalism.
    — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 27 Apr. 2022
  • The truth is that liberalism was never built to last without virtue.
    — Carolyn McKinney, Boston Herald, 22 Sep. 2025
  • His death signals the end of liberalism.
    — Carolyn McKinney, Boston Herald, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Ates said the new mosque will be a place of liberalism where everyone is welcome and equal.
    — Kirsten Grieshaber, The Seattle Times, 16 June 2017
  • His muddled defense of liberalism comes with a heavy dose of disdain for the left.
    — Aaron Timms, The New Republic, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Some on the right now complain about the failures of liberalism, in this larger sense.
    — WSJ, 6 May 2022
  • As is now plain, the spread of liberalism does not by itself curtail fighting.
    — Michael Doyle, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
  • This was one of many points in the decade where white liberalism and white conservatism converged.
    — Rebecca Schuman, Longreads, 2 May 2018
  • The play is a critique of white liberalism based on her own life, which was cut short by her battle with cancer.
    — Kinsey Crowley, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Whose reservoir of resentment against liberalism is as wide and deep as yours.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The New Deal was more clever and diverse than just tax-and-spend liberalism.
    — David Brooks, Star Tribune, 31 July 2020
  • Whether in liberalism or conservatism, the smug style is worth less of our attention.
    — Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 3 May 2017
  • The first of these traits predicts conservatism, but the others point to liberalism.
    — The Economist, 5 July 2019
  • The way forward is not to abandon liberalism, but to save it—from its worst excesses, its blind spots, and its tone-deaf elites.
    — MSNBC Newsweek, 20 May 2025
  • The postmodernist critique of liberalism has now drifted over to the right.
    — Francis Fukuyama, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
  • The problem with his book is that, like so much of liberalism, the arguments are not specific.
    — Mark Judge, Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2024
  • But to me, at least, a little of his imagine-all-the-people ’70s liberalism goes a long way.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 14 Aug. 2021
  • What then is to be done to exorcise the many ghosts in those cold war stories of liberalism, democracy, and the free world?
    — Pankaj Mishra, The New York Review of Books, 21 Oct. 2020
  • At first considered a centrist, Stevens came to be seen as a lion of liberalism.
    — Author: Mark Sherman, Connie Cass, Anchorage Daily News, 17 July 2019
  • His mother was caught between the opinions of her church and the newfound liberalism of the Austin élites.
    — Douglas Stuart, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2026
  • And as more and more Americans stopped defending liberalism, its fate grew worse and worse.
    — Kevin M. Schultz, Harpers Magazine, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Yet that more aggressive strain of Cold War liberalism might just be dormant, not dead.
    — Matthew Cooper, Newsweek, 26 Jan. 2017
  • Many are young folks who have been on the front lines of social change and protests and refuse to compromise their politics for the sake of liberalism.
    — Clarissa Brooks, Teen Vogue, 16 Nov. 2018
  • But at the time, there also emerged a group of scholars who did question the sufficiency of liberalism.
    — Christopher Beem, The Conversation, 18 Mar. 2020

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