How to Use libertarian in a Sentence

libertarian

noun
  • The first group are libertarians who want to get rid of the law root-and-branch.
    — Matt O'Brien, The Denver Post, 14 Apr. 2017
  • First of all, who was the candidate that ran for the libertarians?
    — Fox News, 21 July 2018
  • Mainstream libertarians were worried about the spread of ideas like that.
    — David Weigel, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2017
  • To lawyers, civil libertarians and anyone who doesn’t hate men, this is an outrage.
    — Christine M. Flowers, Philly.com, 11 Aug. 2017
  • But libertarians worry far more about the liberty of the boss than that of the worker.
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Grace could just as well have been the sole survivor of a cult that believed in aliens, or a gang of libertarians who chose death over taxes.
    — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Massie sensed the lack of electoral pressure is adding to the willingness to cast the libertarians aside.
    — Emily Brooks, The Hill, 10 June 2025
  • Some libertarians look to settlements on the high seas to evade the reach of government.
    — Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 19 June 2023
  • Truss, a free-market libertarian, came to power last month pledging to cut taxes to spur growth.
    — Time, 14 Oct. 2022
  • If a liberal and a libertarian can find solid common ground, who among us has an excuse not to join them?
    — Tamar Haspel, Washington Post, 3 June 2022
  • Baker is a libertarian who likes talking about the gold standard.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 29 June 2024
  • Of course, as any civil libertarian would point out, when white cops throw away the book, street Blacks are the first ones to suffer.
    — David Denby, Vulture, 3 July 2024
  • Whether or not this type of guy is actually even a libertarian at all is debatable.
    — Rebecca Jennings, Vox, 26 Sep. 2024
  • One is the strawman version of libertarians, or free marketeers, that is often held up as a world view that needs to go.
    — Nr Staff, National Review, 19 July 2019
  • As a civil libertarian, Furgatch took his swings, his lumps and and his losses.
    — Logan Jenkins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 22 June 2017
  • Lachlan, who has described himself as a libertarian, shares many of his father’s views.
    — Hannah Miller, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2024
  • While some on the left have hailed the book, libertarians and conservatives have attacked it online.
    — Jonathan H. Adler, Washington Post, 15 July 2017
  • Some libertarians are among his biggest cheerleaders, others are appalled and the rest of us are calling balls and strikes.
    — Steven Greenhut, Orange County Register, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Freitas has the backing of some high-profile libertarians, like Sens.
    — Dylan Scott, Vox, 11 June 2018
  • The Stanford study thoroughly debunks the idea that tech is lousy with libertarians.
    — Farhad Manjoo, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2017
  • In Miami, the libertarian will likely find lots of fans.
    — Miami Herald, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Michael Chambers is a libertarian who is urging Alaskans to vote yes on the convention next year.
    — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Sep. 2021
  • The technology has also raised the ire of the city’s civil libertarians.
    — Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 26 July 2024
  • Many civil libertarians thought so when hate-crime laws were being debated, though not all were able to maintain the courage of their convictions.
    — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 22 Feb. 2019
  • Some conservatives and libertarians have since stepped in to defend Jarrar on free speech grounds.
    — Anna North, Vox, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Civil libertarians have called the deportation effort one of the biggest assaults on free speech in decades.
    — Stephanie Saul, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Civil libertarians say the systems do little to prevent crime and can be used to invade privacy and chill free speech on campus in an age of protest.
    — John Wisely, Freep.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Davis, a staunch libertarian, is one of the company’s steadfast defenders.
    — David Peisner, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Yates doesn’t count himself out even though a Libertarian has never been elected to citywide office in Charlotte.
    — Charlotte Observer, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Civil libertarians say the use of this tracking data raises the specter of mass surveillance on innocent people.
    — Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026

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