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chauvinism

[shoh-vuh-niz-uhm] / ˈʃoʊ vəˌnɪz əm /
NOUN
extreme devotion to a belief or nation
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Antonyms
WEAK
unbias


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Don’t mistake these observations for American chauvinism, as too many of my correspondents did.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

With a few deft strokes of his pen, he could convey the quiver of self-doubt, the swagger of chauvinism, the crush of depression.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2025

Brie Larson produces and stars in “Lessons in Chemistry” as a scientist who, faced with the chauvinism of 1950s society, channels her passions into a TV cooking show that stirs science into her recipes.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2023

Of McBride’s various creations, his most beloved have been Southerners who embody a flamboyantly American brand of male chauvinism, and Jesse Gemstone is no exception.

From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2023

It says something about our century, our attitude toward life, our obsession with disease and death, our human chauvinism.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas


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