How to Use revisionism in a Sentence

revisionism

noun
  • That said, this movie isn't all revisionism.
    — Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Whether this was spin, or downright revisionism, depends on your point of view.
    — Fergus McIntosh, New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2025
  • So a revisionism started to go on.
    — Joe Hagan, Vanity Fair, 27 Feb. 2026
  • That was what happened—this revisionism.
    — Joe Hagan, Vanity Fair, 27 Feb. 2026
  • At first, the revisionism plays like a fun thought experiment.
    — Jason Parham, Wired, 2 Mar. 2021
  • But the ambiguities of the case don’t make for easy revisionism.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
  • In history and pop culture, a wave of revisionism has subtly cleaned up the agency’s image.
    — Greg Barnhisel, The New Republic, 3 Sep. 2020
  • Cruella is the latest entry in the thriving genre of villain revisionism.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 2 June 2021
  • But plenty will say in private that some of the #MeToo stories seem to stray into revisionism.
    — The Economist, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Even mild revisionism, however, proves hard to sustain.
    — Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Their reckless revisionism could also have more tragic consequences down the road.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 12 July 2021
  • Their revisionism by omission is a terrible suppression of the truth.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 5 July 2024
  • Such revisionism is just too bald for even the most sympathetic to Barton's worldview.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2012
  • Amid this rising tide of revisionism, Russia’s war against Ukraine is the central story.
    — Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
  • The exhibit comes at a moment when many feel like Black history is facing revisionism.
    — Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Perhaps a similar revisionism will emerge about the years of Tory misrule.
    — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Few historians will agree with Cooper’s out-and-out revisionism.
    — Amir-Hussein Radjy, New Republic, 6 July 2017
  • There couldn’t be a revisionism just by making the northerners the villains, at the time there was xenophobia, hate and violence all around.
    — Emiliano Granada, Variety, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Because a spoonful of infantilization helps the revisionism go down!
    — Jason Kehe, Wired, 20 Oct. 2020
  • This was not the first time Abbas has been accused of antisemitism and Holocaust revisionism.
    — Isabel Kershner, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2022
  • As bracing as such revisionism can be, Barker’s rewriting of Homer had crippling defects.
    — Daniel Mendelsohn, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2021
  • The matter is murky, as Spears does not control the rights to her own catalog - which could enhance the framing of the show’s fairytale revisionism.
    — Lee Seymour, Forbes, 27 May 2021
  • Zambra is hopeful that the revisionism will bring people closer to Neruda’s poems.
    — Graciela Mochkofsky, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2024
  • This new version of events marked the most blatant and audacious attempt yet at sweeping historical revisionism of last year’s protests.
    — Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2020
  • When conservatives co-opt progressive messaging, the answer isn’t to fall in line with their revisionism.
    — Brea Baker, refinery29.com, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Walker also keeps the focus on his story and characters, which are so compelling that the whole question of revisionism fades into the background.
    — Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
  • One crucial difference between the 1930s and today is the scale of the revisionism.
    — Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Contrary to left-wing revisionism, there was nothing in Jim’s story that pointed to bioweapons conspiracies.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Sonevytsky ends her letter by charging me with historical revisionism.
    — John Connelly, The New York Review of Books, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Some call it revisionism that removes blame from Poles who collaborated with the Nazis and murdered Jews.
    — sun-sentinel.com, 17 Aug. 2021

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