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ideology

[ahy-dee-ol-uh-jee, id-ee-] / ˌaɪ diˈɒl ə dʒi, ˌɪd i- /


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Instead, Kim Il Sung supplemented and eventually replaced Marxism-Leninism with the Chuch’e Ideology, a philosophy that the Great Leader, as Kim Il Sung was known, is said to have begun developing as a 14-year-old revolutionary.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

Ideology couldn’t cure my eating disorder or distorted body image, but it did give me an intellectual framework to understand that I had been brainwashed by patriarchy and commerce.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2024

Richard Hanania, president of the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology, said that former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo “wouldn’t have stood for it.”

From Washington Times • May 20, 2023

“It seems the protest wave has come and gone,” Jeremy Wallace, sociology professor at Cornell and the author of Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts: Information, Ideology, and Authoritarianism in China, said in a phone interview.

From Slate • Dec. 22, 2022

Ideology, ī-de-ol′o-ji, n. the science of ideas, metaphysics.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various




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