individualism
Example Sentences
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He established a personalized imprint through music that nonetheless invited individualism and exuded a communal spirit.
Children are a responsibility: a limitation on us in an age of careerism and radical individualism.
Some historians find its origins in the secular individualism of the 18th-century Enlightenment, or in the earlier political thought of John Locke or Thomas Hobbes.
The fabric has long been shorthand for rugged individualism and the everyday workwear mythos of the American frontier — in other words, a different, portable performance of Americana.
From Salon
As much as the region has been defined by sprawl and individualism, it has also fostered community and culture in both new ways and old: Little Bangladesh, Little Ethiopia, Little Armenia, Frogtown, El Sereno, Watts.
From Los Angeles Times
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