radicalism
noun
rad·i·cal·ism
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Questions about radicalism online have taken on a grim new relevance after this week’s violence. — Colin Lecher, The Verge, "White House plans meeting with tech companies about online extremism," 7 Aug. 2019 For both the administration and for the Democratic 2020 candidates, this can be a conversation about guns or one about race and radicalism. — NBC News, "After El Paso, the White House looks to focus on guns over racial rhetoric," 5 Aug. 2019 Whatever Pelosi’s plans might have been, they’ve been lost in a fog of anti-Semitism and left-wing radicalism. — Matthew Continetti, National Review, "Pelosi’s House of Pain," 13 July 2019 Burke’s focus on the social character of man, from Burke’s thoroughgoing gradualism, and from his innovative liberal alternative to Enlightenment radicalism. — Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review, "The Right Liberalism," 11 July 2019 Then, once nominated, the survivor can back off from his or her earlier radicalism, move to the center in the general election and hope that voters prefer a centrist hypocrite to an unapologetic radical. — Victor Davis Hanson, The Mercury News, "Hanson: Democratic candidates aren’t on a winning track," 5 July 2019 Today, the most vociferous criticism of Saudi radicalism is directed against Saudi activities in the period before 2003 rather than in more recent years. — Michael Rubin, National Review, "Turkey’s Africa Strategy Threatens to Breed Islamist Extremism," 26 June 2019 After a lifetime devoted to the study of proslavery radicalism, William Freehling, arguably the nation’s leading neorevisionist, has produced a characteristically audacious study of Abraham Lincoln. — James Oakes, The New York Review of Books, "The Great Divide," 23 May 2019 And its radicalism, which is real, lies in the area that has so far attracted least attention. — The Economist, "Corbynomics would change Britain—but not in the way most people think," 17 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'radicalism.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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radicalism
noun
English Language Learners Definition of radicalism
: the opinions and behavior of people who favor extreme changes especially in government : radical political ideas and behavior
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