How to Use tribalism in a Sentence

tribalism

noun
  • Tribalism within the group is strong.
  • The tribalism of it all framed each season, if not the reason to be a fan.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 May 2021
  • The idea of tribalism is always in the background of the show.
    — OregonLive.com, 30 Oct. 2017
  • Come for the paranoia and tribalism, stay for the gut-punch ending.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Just maybe there were reasons, other than tribalism, for change?
    — Star Tribune, 21 Nov. 2020
  • This kind of tribalism is both a cause and a consequence of trouble.
    — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 23 Apr. 2018
  • The answer to one kind of tribalism is not forming another tribe of our own.
    — Elif Shafak, Quartz, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Try to think of where the other person is coming from, instead of tribalism.
    — Izzy Grinspan, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Nov. 2022
  • In essence, the city appears to be moving away from the ethnic tribalism that has defined the city for decades.
    — Lincoln Mitchell, CNN, 19 May 2021
  • Like the original myth, this one trades on the tribalism of its adherents.
    — Jonathan Stevenson, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2021
  • The group and tribalism and information flow are also part of it.
    — Gary Stix, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2023
  • And so there is this kind of tribalism, as one expert described it to me that goes on during election seasons.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The author sees an antidote to this tribalism in the rise of fantasy leagues.
    — David Papineau, WSJ, 22 Feb. 2021
  • The paean to tribalism is pleasing to China — and profitable.
    — Armond White, National Review, 9 Sep. 2020
  • Uni has a unicorn in Jurassic in that there isn’t a fierce tribalism like other movie fanships.
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 7 July 2025
  • The danger at the moment is that the capital could be sliding into a kind of tribalism.
    — Gerald F. Seib, WSJ, 3 Apr. 2017
  • But the appeals to rise above the tribalism of the moment from the two veteran lawmakers fell on deaf ears.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Dec. 2019
  • Some refer to this sort of reasoning as the tribalism of politics.
    — Jim Triggs, Star Tribune, 5 Nov. 2020
  • The data also suggest that tribalism follows us out onto the road.
    — Dante Chinni, NBC News, 7 July 2019
  • Back then, software tribalism drove a wedge between PC and Mac users.
    — John Patrick Pullen, Time, 22 Aug. 2017
  • Only recently have many in this country begun to appraise the extent of the tribalism at home.
    — Laila Lalami, New York Times, 26 June 2018
  • We were shredded apart and remain so, stained forever by mistrust and a sudden tribalism that seems to define us.
    — Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 7 Mar. 2026
  • But even among connoisseurs tribalism often won out; the point of soccer was still to chant and cheer, not analyze and admire.
    — Leo Robson, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2016
  • And the fact that the president couldn’t stay away and a lot of his followers couldn’t stay away tells you intensity of tribalism.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 29 May 2018
  • This is how the fatal tribalism of the Bosnian war becomes contagious.
    — Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
  • So many of us are riven by tribalism that the only thing that matters now for tens of millions of us is dominating the other side.
    — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 11 Nov. 2020
  • There is this fight between the globalists and the populists or nationalists or the tribalism.
    — Recode Staff, Recode, 21 June 2018
  • But when sports teams win, neighborhood tribalism gets swept to the side and more hugs and high-fives get exchanged, like gifts on Christmas morning.
    — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Feb. 2023
  • The months-long feud that led to his ouster offered a window into the city’s long tradition of political wars and tribalism.
    — Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2022
  • And then there’s the power of tribalism to keep the GOP voters from switching to the Dems.
    — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 8 Dec. 2017

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