How to Use conservatism in a Sentence

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  • Who wants to build up the hub of conservatism in the state of Alaska?
    — Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The particulars of Fox’s mood, and its conservatism, adapted and evolved with the eras.
    — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2023
  • But conservatism is, in many ways, baked into the business.
    — Katie Thornton, Rolling Stone, 21 Jan. 2024
  • Throughout the 1980s, the forces of reform and conservatism raged, often within the same person.
    — Chang Che, The New Republic, 27 Oct. 2022
  • New Right conservatism was premised to a great extent on the idea that the social fabric was torn to pieces by the tumultuous 1960s.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Why? Michael Oakeshott understood that conservatism changes with the times.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The customs recall an era of a kinder, more genteel conservatism.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2022
  • East Tennessee is the pocket of conservatism in the United States.
    — Jon Brown, Fox News, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The tension between conservatism and risk played out at the U.S. box office this past weekend.
    — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Pence said the party has to choose either conservatism or populism.
    — The Editors, National Review, 8 Sep. 2023
  • That is the main point of conservatism, in America: to preserve the Founding, to defend our system.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The outcomes of these races look mostly set, but the margin and manner will help determine what form conservatism takes in the next two years and who will lead it.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2022
  • In 2024, hell hath no fury like progressives exposed to conservatism on their home turf.
    — Christian Schneider, National Review, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Brainard is concerned about Glynn, who lost in the 2019 primary on a message of fiscal conservatism.
    — Brittany Carloni, The Indianapolis Star, 2 May 2023
  • His conservatism, clearly designed for bankers and tech workers who are worried their kids won’t get into the Ivy League, is both weird and off-putting.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2023
  • What hasn’t been said as much is this: Its corruption is tied directly to its conservatism.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 5 June 2023
  • Since May, economic chaos in the U.S. and beyond has heralded a new era of careful conservatism in the Valley.
    — Robert Stevens, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Timelessness, of course, can imply a sense of conservatism.
    — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Some have seen the trial as a referendum not only on his brand of populist conservatism but on Trump.
    — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
  • All three books portray a conservatism that was fraught with tensions long before Trump’s emergence.
    — Kim Phillips-Fein, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2022
  • So is my brand of conservatism the dominant brand today?
    — Kk Ottesen, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2022
  • The conventional wisdom at present is that fiscal conservatism is on its way out.
    — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 4 May 2023
  • In a place that was once the heart of conservatism in Southern California but is now deeply purple, much will come down to how voters feel about the economy.
    — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2022
  • Trying to find a balance between conservatism and hedonism is a hard one.
    — Spin Staff, SPIN, 31 Dec. 2022
  • For her, conservatism meant taking care of people and treating people with respect.
    — Monica Potts, ABC News, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Parts of the plan appear to align with a shift in the GOP away from orthodox fiscal conservatism toward more government support for families.
    — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 7 Aug. 2023
  • One of the foundational concepts of conservatism is that, in the real world, there are always costs and tradeoffs to any good thing, and limits to every right, power, and principle.
    — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 7 Nov. 2023
  • There is little doubt that 2023 will be a year of inflection for America; a year that will see the platform built to support auspicious change for conservatism and for our country.
    — Peter J. Travers, National Review, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Redfield predicted that their vision was the future of conservatism.
    — Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
  • For decades, the Republican Party has been the party of conservatism and a champion for the Constitution.
    — Karyn Amira, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2023

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