chauvinism
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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
It was precisely that granular aspect of Torvald’s chauvinism that Moayed wanted to explore.
From Washington Post • Mar. 17, 2023
Regardless of mentality of chauvinism and misogyny, it is a confusing time to be a 17-year-old girl in any culture.
From Salon • Jul. 7, 2022
There was an element of chauvinism in this—the French supported their own champion and rejected the ideas of the perfidious Englishman, while Newton was, of course, very much a prophet honoured in his own country.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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