How to Use nationalism in a Sentence

nationalism

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  • The war was caused by nationalism and greed.
  • Nazism's almost epic nationalism appealed to downtrodden Germans still suffering the humiliation of being defeated in World War I.
  • By the way, the show is not a think piece about white nationalism.
    — Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2024
  • There’s a lot of people who don’t like the idea of nationalism.
    — Jeff Caplan, star-telegram, 24 Oct. 2017
  • The film plays as a dire warning against the racist nationalism that has been rising in the West in recent years.
    — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Vladimir Putin lost his mind in the ethers of Great Russia nationalism.
    — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2022
  • In the last few years, Christian nationalism has sprung up all around us.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Breen sees that day as the point when those beliefs were aired out in the open, often cloaked as nationalism.
    — oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2021
  • The hunt for a vaccine, has been caught up in a tide of nationalism that was already sweeping the world before the virus hit.
    — Adela Suliman, NBC News, 25 Dec. 2020
  • And in this way, white nationalism isn’t much like cancer at all.
    — C. Brandon Ogbunu, Wired, 26 Jan. 2021
  • In the wave of Croatian nationalism of the 1990s, residents cut the trees down.
    — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The Proud Boys is a male chauvinist group with ties to white nationalism.
    — Author: Devlin Barrett, Matt Zapotosky, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Jan. 2021
  • Even the rise of Hindu nationalism in India over the past decade has played a role, experts say.
    — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Both men spoke of the rise of nationalism and fascism across Europe.
    — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 21 May 2018
  • Tribe and race over country is the core of white nationalism, and racists can embrace Lee in good conscience.
    — Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 4 June 2017
  • Now there's so much more nationalism and everybody's trying to get a piece of the moon.
    — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 15 May 2020
  • And like other Cup teams, the players have wrapped themselves in the flag of ardent nationalism.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 13 July 2018
  • This is the system that has lasted ever since and has been challenged in these days of trade wars and nationalism.
    — CBS News, 23 Sep. 2019
  • But the angry aesthetic of this brand of nationalism can be off-putting.
    — Sophie Pinkham, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2020
  • This the age of pandemics and the rise of autocrats and nationalism and provincialism.
    — Steven Levy, Wired, 18 Nov. 2020
  • But right now, for many Poles, nationalism has never felt so good.
    — Anthony Faiola, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2016
  • Chinese nationalism lies at the heart of this question.
    — David Shambaugh, Fortune, 30 June 2021
  • While some have posted in support of a white ethno-state, white nationalism is not a core tenet.
    — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 July 2021
  • The new fear and distrust in Lod has old roots in dueling nationalism.
    — New York Times, 13 May 2021
  • Trumpism has an essence, and that essence is nationalism.
    — Christopher Demuth, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2019
  • But the idea faced resistance within Poland, where right-wing nationalism has been on the rise in recent years.
    — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 25 Jan. 2017
  • Was Trump the first to voice America-first-style nationalism?
    — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 24 May 2017
  • Which way Modi’s form of nationalism will lean remains to be seen.
    — Roger Cohen, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Jan. 2023
  • Vaccine nationalism has been the rule, not the exception.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2021
  • Although de-globalization is the result of many trends and factors, one of the main drivers has been the rise of nationalism.
    — Chris Perry, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023

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