How to Use radicalism in a Sentence

radicalism

noun
  • This radicalism is a threat to our city, our state, and our nation.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Will Daly, for his part, did not dodge the charge of radicalism.
    — oregonlive, 4 June 2021
  • But the country has no culture of radicalism to match the chaos of those neighbors.
    — Andrew Solomon, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 July 2019
  • The army is also facing a probe into right-wing radicalism in its ranks.
    — Reuters, Fortune, 21 June 2017
  • In the face of such challenges, realism and radicalism are not so far apart.
    — The Editors, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2020
  • Her life read a bit like a cautionary tale against the rigidities of radicalism.
    — Hazlitt, 11 June 2025
  • The radicalism nurtured in the 1990s was more than the work of one man.
    — Claire Potter, The New Republic, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Gender politics has moved on from that kind of arch radicalism.
    — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2017
  • This radicalism on the far right creates an opening for extremism on the far left.
    — Elise Jordan, Time, 25 Sep. 2017
  • In an age tuned for outrage, a place built on patient agreement is its own quiet radicalism.
    — Afdhel Aziz, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • But the impact of this kind of radicalism is rarely understood in the moment.
    — Nathaniel Friedman, Slate Magazine, 8 May 2017
  • The escape came days after a man flagged for radicalism stabbed five people in Paris.
    — Fox News, 17 May 2018
  • In a way, the current radicalism flips the idea of The Remnant on its head.
    — Sam Adler-Bell, The New Republic, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Al-Hawl has become a hotbed of radicalism, a kind of mini-caliphate.
    — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Most meditators don’t give much thought to going all the way down the path toward this radicalism.
    — Robert Wright, WIRED, 12 Aug. 2017
  • And its radicalism, which is real, lies in the area that has so far attracted least attention.
    — The Economist, 17 May 2018
  • Fear is the only thing keeping campus radicalism afloat.
    — Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 27 Aug. 2025
  • For some, this video served as evidence of Obama's covert radicalism.
    — Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 18 June 2021
  • There are strains of radicalism on the left that must horrify any NTR.
    — David Roberts, Vox, 24 Apr. 2018
  • But even the flurry of sedition convictions has done little to stem the larger tide of far-right radicalism.
    — Alan Feuer, New York Times, 26 May 2023
  • In the case of Islam the aim was partly to prevent the spread of radicalism and with it, terrorism.
    — The Economist, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Whatever Pelosi’s plans might have been, they’ve been lost in a fog of anti-Semitism and left-wing radicalism.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 13 July 2019
  • There had been radicalism in the past too, but back then it was called Anarchism or Bolshevism.
    — Ian Bremmer, Time, 9 Oct. 2017
  • In the hysterical post-Roe scramble, Democrats are sure to show their hand on this radicalism.
    — Nate Hochman, National Review, 6 May 2022
  • That has led to deep political polarization and even the rise of radicalism ahead of this year’s elections.
    — Sarah Dilorenzo, The Seattle Times, 10 Feb. 2018
  • At almost every chance to give context for his radicalism, One Love breezes over it with title cards and archival footage.
    — Lawrence Burney, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Many of the area’s neighborhoods are reliably progressive but not known for their radicalism.
    — Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 27 June 2026
  • Perhaps as alarming as the rhetoric is the procedural radicalism of the Democrats.
    — The Editors, National Review, 21 Jan. 2022
  • His childhood was steeped in Elvis and cowboy movies, his adolescence in the era of ’60s rock and radicalism.
    — Lizzy Goodman, Billboard, 6 Oct. 2017
  • These efforts are occurring at a time when anti-Semitism and radicalism are on the rise elsewhere in the Arab world.
    — Yardena Schwartz, Newsweek, 6 Sep. 2017

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