How to Use nepotism in a Sentence

nepotism

noun
  • Nepotism has hurt the company.
  • James hears the nepotism claims.
    — Sean Gregory, Time, 9 June 2026
  • Getting a taste of nepotism is kind of sweet.
    — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 15 Aug. 2025
  • But there may soon be a new form of nepotism living right next door.
    — Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Yes, all four actresses will still get their jobs due to nepotism.
    — Vulture, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Some might say that the Josh Doan pick is due to nepotism but that isn’t true.
    — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 27 July 2021
  • No industry is a stranger to nepotism.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Those two things are gatekeeping and nepotism.
    — Jem Aswad, Variety, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Nepotism — and letting the love of your son interfere with the good of the team.
    — Mike Bianchi, OrlandoSentinel.com, 19 July 2017
  • And stop the nepotism and stop the dysfunction in the office.
    — Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2017
  • Or, even, that some kind of nepotism is being disguised with this whole charade.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Can’t anybody here play this game, the game in question being nepotism?
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 28 Sep. 2025
  • But deep down, there’s something about the nepotism that bothers him about all of the Roy kids.
    — Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 May 2023
  • This has provoked inevitable eye-rolling about nepotism, but Mann is a comedic star in her own right.
    — Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Because of the paper’s nepotism rules, one of the newlyweds had to go.
    — Dallas News, 4 Jan. 2023
  • No one made any charges of nepotism because, frankly, everyone wanted to work with her.
    — Kenny Leon, ajc, 25 May 2018
  • And with this historic achievement has come claims of nepotism and backlash against both players.
    — Giana Levy, refinery29.com, 27 June 2024
  • There’s been nepotism and vote buying in the town of Idyllwild, Calif.
    — Sydney Page, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
  • But anyone suspecting literary nepotism would be wrong—the piece was in large part a pan.
    — Laura Kolbe, The New York Review of Books, 23 Apr. 2020
  • Or a new hire, incompetent for the work, brought on board via the nepotism of the franchise owner.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2020
  • There are plenty of connections and nepotism and who knows who and who’s been where and identity stuff.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The use of nepotism as a means of adding to diversity may also come off as cynical.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2024
  • People think, oh, this is just a nepotism situation.
    — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 14 Feb. 2026
  • And while the good times were rolling, despite gripes about nepotism, the brothers remained popular.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 13 July 2022
  • Lest you be concerned, there's no unmerited nepotism here.
    — Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • One problem with nepotism in the NFL is that the results sometimes work.
    — Star Tribune, 8 Feb. 2021
  • Though his letter referred to nepotism, no direct link was made between Dahir and Ali.
    — David Close, CNN, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Sputter as the pundits may, the fact is that nepotism has been a part of politics as long as there has been such a thing as politics.
    — Daniel Mendelsohn, Town & Country, 30 Oct. 2019
  • If nepotism were a thing in my life, how come all my other bands (before Sublime) didn’t get any exposure?
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Which just goes to show you that even though nepotism's getting a bad name today in some quarters, every now and then a little of it's called for.
    — Time Staff, Time, 14 May 2017

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