fundamentalism
noun
Examples of fundamentalism in a Sentence
Valerie Hopkins, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
King's Landing power vacuum, a new strain of religious fundamentalism adds a curious new quirk to Westerosi courtly politics.
—Darren Franich, EW.com, 29 Feb. 2024
Since then, countless essays, articles, and books have tried to explain the growing threats to the liberal world order posed by populism, authoritarianism, fundamentalism, and nationalism.
—Helena Rosenblatt, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
By the 1950s, many conservative Christians started to distance themselves from fundamentalism, at least in a cultural sense.
—Harry Bruinius, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2023
The opportunity offered by climate fundamentalism for bureaucrats who like to command and control is one that some of its officials are unable to resist.
—Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 17 Dec. 2023
In 1989, when the 35-year-old Communist playwright and street theater director Safdar Hashmi was beaten to death by right-wing thugs while performing near Delhi, Mr. Sundaram, with other cultural figures, organized a collective to oppose religious fundamentalism and sectarianism.
—Holland Cotter, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2023
Pfeffer is currently covering the war and has been working on a book about Jewish fundamentalism.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2023
It has been passionately embraced on the right, and supported by a wide spectrum of society, as the French defense against everything from Islamist fundamentalism to American multiculturalism.
—Roger Cohen, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023
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Word History
1912, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
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