How to Use wokeness in a Sentence

wokeness

noun
  • Adam Brody has a bone to pick with celebrities railing against wokeness.
    — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 16 Sep. 2024
  • But now, there is no tolerance and wokeness has somehow become bad thing in the mind of people.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 20 June 2023
  • Al-Gharbi’s book is neither an attack on wokeness nor a defense of it.
    — Sean Illing, Vox, 9 Nov. 2024
  • The asylum law has been corrupted for the sake of moral diversity wokeness.
    — Chicago Tribune, 25 Jan. 2025
  • As Marcos, Nico Greetham is also saddled with an overload of wokeness.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Andreessen, who played an early role in staffing DOGE, has also railed against wokeness.
    — Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2025
  • What if wokeness, far from being a passionate quest for social justice, is the pursuit of injustice by other means?
    — Christian Schneider, National Review, 24 Oct. 2024
  • The Democratic Party does not need more hate mixed into their misguided wokeness.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 28 June 2024
  • Apparently, even taking arms against the United States is less noxious than wokeness.
    — Jeff Raikes, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • Hegseth, a guy who wears his love and passion for the military on his sleeve, deserves a shot to wring wokeness out of the military, and reignite critical recruitment.
    — Michael Zais, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Nov. 2024
  • Costco doubles down on ‘wokeness’ while ignoring Bud Light backlash.
    — Fox News, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Some of the character choices were confusing, the jokes about wokeness were often cringey, and the absence of Samantha was glaring.
    — The Editors, Vulture, 16 June 2023
  • As Hawaii reels from devastating wildfires and considers how to rebuild, far-right figures are… blaming wokeness for the whole thing.
    — Edith Olmsted, The New Republic, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Charlie Kirk is the right’s new kingmaker In many cases, the two factions detest wokeness in the same specific ways.
    — Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Richard Hanania, the conservative commentator, signed copies of his book on wokeness.
    — Kevin Roose, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2023
  • A lot of the anti-woke people describe wokeness as this kind of major threat to Western civilization, to the prevailing order.
    — Sean Illing, Vox, 9 Nov. 2024
  • It was updated and adapted (more texting, wokeness, lip filler) into a new Adam Sandler movie featuring his two daughters.
    — Emma Allen, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Opponents have dismissed it as a screed, but much of it is a recitation of unexceptionable (and often boilerplate) arguments against wokeness.
    — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2024
  • But will his crusade against wokeness repel recent MAGA converts?
    — airmail.news, 25 Jan. 2025
  • One of our major political movements — Trumpism or wokeness — will be humiliated this fall.
    — Natan Ehrenreich, National Review, 1 Aug. 2024
  • The dirty little secret undergirding wokeness is that its practitioners have nothing but indignation in their corner.
    — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 9 Jan. 2024
  • In the first four episodes, Newsom seems incapable of interrogating any right-wing position—whether on tariffs, book bans, trans women in sports, wokeness, or the mess at the border.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Of course, there’s no way to declare that the Doctor shouldn’t be Black that isn’t out-and-out racist, and so many of these comments are couched in attacks on the producers for wokeness or virtue signaling.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Fans of Wukong using the game to rail against wokeness aren’t necessarily for embracing Chinese culture, but a nimble riff on that culture is still on offer through the game.
    — Aja Romano, Vox, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Exposed to bad economic news, Republicans’ level of concern over wokeness and critical race theory dropped more than any other issue.
    — Clifford A. Young, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2023
  • His comments awoke the industry for a discourse about wokeness that even reached fellow Seinfeld alum Julia Louis-Dreyfus (who, for the record, disagreed with him).
    — Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2024
  • There are almost certainly some young men and women who’ve opted out of serving because of wokeness, but the data available suggest there are simpler corrections that can happen under any administration.
    — Luther Ray Abel, National Review, 9 Feb. 2024
  • This clear response to institutional wokeness and collapse must compel conservatives to offer these voters an image of productive masculinity.
    — Michael Ginsberg, National Review, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Is the cure more wokeness, additional DEI initiatives, an invasion at the southern border, excessive foreign aid spending?
    — arkansasonline.com, 6 Feb. 2025
  • The main problem was the incumbency disadvantage, exacerbated by inflation—and immigration, and also urban disorder, wokeness, and trans swimmers.
    — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2024

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