progressivism

Example Sentences

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I was socialized in the crucible of millennial progressivism.

From Slate • Feb. 12, 2026

Instead, “Companion” is content with being a rough draft of a movie about objectification, a lazy first pass that hopes its audience will mistake the insinuation of progressivism for the actual philosophy.

From Salon • Jan. 31, 2025

“San Franciscans are quite progressive. But there is a strain among some people — I think it’s a minority, but some people — where they equate progressivism to having no change,” Wiener said.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2024

My book, “Heartbreak City,” tracks this contest between progressivism and conservatism in American cities through the medium of athletics in the late-19th, 20th and 21st centuries.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 15, 2023

What follows upon these reflections is a rather ingenious form of historical progressivism in which the civilizing powers of the poet provide the principal justification for lyric poetry.

From An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients by Jackson, Wallace