How to Use propaganda in a Sentence

propaganda

noun
Definition of propagandanext
Synonyms for propagandanext
  • The report was nothing but lies and propaganda.
  • He was accused of spreading propaganda.
  • Has the self ever been the subject of so much propaganda?
    — New York Times, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Fox News is the largest right-wing propaganda network in the country.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 21 Apr. 2023
  • But in parts of the east, most officials concede that Russia still has the upper hand in the propaganda war.
    — Dyma Shapoval Daniel Berehulak, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Trump has a mighty propaganda network behind him (Fox is the mere tip of that iceberg).
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The propaganda stopped working on him only when the Russian bombs fell.
    — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 6 July 2023
  • In 1942, she was removed from her job on the German desk of the war propaganda agency in Washington.
    — Sarah Watling, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 May 2023
  • But when Kreiz took charge, that kind of propaganda was not working broadly enough.
    — Willa Paskin, New York Times, 11 July 2023
  • Still, public support for the war remains high, thanks to state propaganda.
    — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2023
  • The company also worked with the CCP to promote propaganda, Yu said.
    — Joel Rosenblatt, Fortune, 6 June 2023
  • But even though Mattel was involved, the film couldn’t just be Barbie propaganda.
    — Willa Paskin, New York Times, 11 July 2023
  • The only way Democrats’ bad policies can survive in America is via a steady stream of propaganda.
    — Gabe Kaminsky, Washington Examiner, 27 Oct. 2023
  • The constant high-volume propaganda aimed 24 hours a day, seven days a week at the 60-and-up crowd convinces many of them that the world is ending, and only their guns can stop the apocalypse.
    — Brynn Tannehill, The New Republic, 8 May 2023
  • Media of all types have been spreading propaganda meant to craft a false equivalence between the State of Israel and the terrorists who run Gaza.
    — Mike Coté, National Review, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The result was a US Senate inquiry into motion picture propaganda in the fall of 1941.
    — Chris Yogerst, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Nov. 2023
  • More importantly, the small numbers deployed will certainly not change the balance of the war, and its main value has been as a weapon of propaganda.
    — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 5 May 2023
  • Fun fact: In what may be the greatest compliment of all, the film was condemned by Russia as anti-Russian propaganda.
    — Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 4 Feb. 2024
  • There’s no political propaganda in the jail and dance music blares from a radio.
    — Dasha Litvinova, ajc, 3 June 2023
  • His chief task was propaganda: explaining the F.L.N. to outsiders.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The effort comes at a time when antisemitic attacks and propaganda are spiking.
    — Will Carless, USA TODAY, 2 June 2023
  • In other words, half of Republicans don’t want the propaganda Fox is peddling.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 7 June 2023
  • But more than that, there are great films that show the extent of propaganda towards Indigenous people in America.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Lear, who was raised in a Jewish household and received a bar mitzvah, was deeply troubled by Coughlin’s racist propaganda and screeds against the Jewish people.
    — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Spreading propaganda On November 2, Germany took the step of banning Hamas and all activities linked to the group.
    — Sophie Tanno, CNN, 28 Jan. 2024
  • On Thursday, though, Lam was convicted of conducting propaganda against the state, leading to his five-year prison sentence.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 26 May 2023
  • This type of language is frequently seen in propaganda and, in more recent wars, on social media.
    — Thomas Gibbons-Neff, New York Times, 14 June 2023
  • It is not intended to be propaganda, or an attempt to persuade anyone of anything.
    — Saira Mueller, CNN, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Likewise, a short pro-Hamas propaganda sketch posted on TikTok purports to show a bearded fighter asleep under an olive tree after a night of prayer.
    — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Nov. 2023
  • The American student, who traveled to Pyongyang and was detained on charges of stealing a propaganda poster, died soon after being sent back to the United States in a coma.
    — Eve Sampson, Washington Post, 19 July 2023

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