How to Use republicanism in a Sentence

republicanism

noun
  • Laboulaye had in mind a monument to the end of slavery here and the rebirth of republicanism there.
    — Adam Gopni, The New Yorker, 3 July 2021
  • She and her sisters were raised in no faith except that of republicanism and socialism.
    — Lauren Elkin, Washington Post, 16 May 2023
  • That may not sound too bad, but what should be more worrying to the palace is that, when asked a more direct question about whether to scrap the crown, support for republicanism surged.
    — Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
  • But far from giving republicanism a boost, the new king’s standing in the public is likely to be bolstered by the transition, analysts say.
    — WSJ, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Still, his speech Tuesday night will surely be remembered as a low point for both the concept of democracy and the practice of republicanism.
    — NBC news, 4 Nov. 2020
  • The Irish band Kneecap is a rap trio steeped in the history of Irish republicanism—one member wears a balaclava.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The Arch of Nero both honored republicanism and warned that it was being corrupted by the war and, inevitably, its aftermath.
    — Tyler Green, The Atlantic, 21 May 2026
  • With Gill, the time has come for the court to fulfill its responsibility to protect small-d democracy, as well as small-r republicanism.
    — Palma Joy Strand, Slate Magazine, 19 Sep. 2017
  • The open letter was the latest salvo in a raging culture war within France on Islam, race, republicanism, and all things in between.
    — Harrison Stetler, The New Republic, 24 May 2021
  • Perhaps the most radical element of republicanism was that the nation’s sovereignty would be held by its citizenry rather than by a monarch or an autocrat.
    — Tyler Green, The Atlantic, 21 May 2026
  • Napoleon’s victory dealt a body blow to a European old regime already tottering from the spread of republicanism and popular sovereignty.
    — Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, WSJ, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Note how the language of citizenship and republicanism are seldom applied to black Americans.
    — Annette Gordon-Reed, The New York Review of Books, 13 June 2020
  • These days, Carlson is adored by precisely the people who might once have dismissed him as a twerpy avatar of establishment Republicanism.
    — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
  • Britain’s monarchy would need to come up with a very good reason for empire unionism, which today may be a letter even more dead in UK politics than outright republicanism.
    — Matt Seaton, The New York Review of Books, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Being famous for stealing Vermeers is an odd fate for a woman who would clearly prefer to be remembered, if at all, as a heroine of Irish republicanism.
    — Ruth Bernard Yeazell, The New York Review of Books, 23 Feb. 2021
  • Yet this same avidity also means that if public opinion shifts significantly towards republicanism, vote-hungry politicians will be the first to jump on that tumbrel.
    — Catherine Mayer, CNN, 14 Apr. 2021
  • On the flipside of Unionism is Irish republicanism, which prioritizes no border between the two Irelands at any cost.
    — Luke McGee, CNN, 3 Aug. 2019
  • Marshall took the court’s reins just as Jeffersonian republicanism swept through the White House and Congress.
    — Adam J. White, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2018
  • In this view, the secular contest between natural-rights republicanism and egalitarian progressivism is the great struggle of our time.
    — Daniel J. Mahoney, National Review, 20 June 2019
  • And republicanism simmers not far from the surface in major Western democracies like Canada and Australia.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Fears of a similar confrontation may have led some Caribbean leaders to reconsider their support for republicanism.
    — The Economist, 16 Sep. 2020
  • For more than a decade, Islamist terrorism has overtaken Irish republicanism as the key threat for British security services.
    — Jane Merrick, CNN, 23 May 2017
  • Some activists and academics argue that the move to republicanism is the first step in the process of recovering reparations for the human rights abuses and plundering of countries under colonialism.
    — Eloise Barry, Time, 14 Sep. 2022
  • But Scotland and Northern Ireland do not need to avow republicanism to vote for democratic self-determination.
    — Matt Seaton, The New York Review of Books, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Calls for republicanism have been growing in Jamaica, which celebrates its 60-year anniversary of independence from Britain this year.
    — Alison Fishburn, Longreads, 17 Sep. 2022
  • What this will mean for French republicanism, the secular ideology that undergirds the state and the educational system, is unclear.
    — Mark Lilla, The New York Review of Books, 17 Jan. 2019
  • The move follows a swell in support for republicanism in the Caribbean, which campaigners say is part of a larger reckoning with the legacy of British colonialism and the slave trade in the region.
    — Eloise Barry, Time, 14 Sep. 2022
  • With ‘The Arch of Nero,’ Cole warned his countrymen about how republicanism was inherently subject to corruption.
    — Terry Teachout, WSJ, 15 June 2021
  • The projectors were wrongly suspected of republicanism.
    — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Out went what was left of country-club Republicanism; in came the Fifth Avenue insurgent and his MAGA hordes.
    — John Cassidy, New Yorker, 29 June 2026

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