How to Use ideology in a Sentence

ideology

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  • He says that the election is not about ideology.
  • Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 20 Apr. 2018
  • But pop’s ideology shifted a bit over the course of the 2010s.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 15 June 2022
  • It’s the kind of book people need to read to make sense of the gender-ideology wave that has swept through the West.
    — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 1 Mar. 2021
  • The leading approach is sure to fail: doubling down on the ideologies and practices that led to the pro-Hamas fever in the first place.
    — Heather Mac Donald, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2023
  • As an ideology, Mather wants most of his hitters to spray the ball all over the field.
    — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 26 July 2022
  • Part of that ideology has given Miss Pam wings over the years.
    — Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2024
  • This center will set us apart from the rest of the nation with new creative ideologies.
    — Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al.com, 10 June 2019
  • The current push to elect more women is just the pink flavor of the same old left-wing ideology.
    — Alexandra Desanctis, National Review, 25 Jan. 2018
  • They were not roped and tied by ideology when pragmatism was the best path to progress.
    — Gov. Butch Otter, idahostatesman, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Along with that, of course, comes the ideology of bringing slavery along with it.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Trump didn’t invent the ideology that now goes by his name.
    — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2022
  • And there’s a dichotomy of battling ideologies that didn’t exist in the movie.
    — Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Their anti-choice ideology has no place in my body, nor in any laws.
    — Adele E. Zimmermann, Cosmopolitan, 1 Nov. 2017
  • That’s what all of those weapons are, that opposing ideology come to life.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 July 2023
  • In the three European countries, the drop did not vary much by ideology.
    — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2021
  • But at the end of the day, one of our two great parties has completely abandoned its ideology.
    — CBS News, 10 Oct. 2021
  • It’s that, anything that runs counter to your ideology?
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 12 Feb. 2022
  • The racial ideology revealed in the former Fox News host’s text message.
    — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 3 May 2023
  • Then risk progress for the sake of ideology or fidelity to their party.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Polizzi says sexism and an embrace of right wing ideology cast Stewart from the race.
    — Hartford Courant, courant.com, 11 May 2018
  • While this bill had enormous effects, the ideology behind it had been decades in the making.
    — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Just change things up — under the knife and with some hormones and a dose of transgender ideology.
    — Damon Linker, TheWeek, 13 Mar. 2020
  • People who say my ideology is this — yeah, but that changes.
    — David Marchese Photo Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Opponents of her son’s racial ideology had threatened to protest in front of it.
    — Kimberly Winston, Houston Chronicle, 12 May 2018
  • Trump is not alone as a man of the right in breaking with traditional right-wing ideology.
    — CBS News, 23 Mar. 2024
  • What also struck me about listening to Wayne was that his words were void of ideology.
    — Fox News, 30 Mar. 2021
  • That means any ideology has a right to a display, even an abhorrent one.
    — Matthew Malec, National Review, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Frank was described as having no ideology and that being the scariest thing of all.
    — Brian Porreca, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 June 2017
  • My sense is this was always way more about business than ideology for him.
    — Albert Breer, SI.com, 2 July 2018

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