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extremism

[ ik-stree-miz-uhm ]

noun

  1. a tendency or disposition to go to extremes or an instance of going to extremes, especially in political matters:

    leftist extremism; the extremism of the Nazis.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of extremism1

First recorded in 1860–65; extreme + -ism
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Example Sentences

The civil rights carve-out, for example, may be well intentioned but could lead to a worsening situation as those who support political extremism try to turn their beliefs into protected speech.

“The entire infrastructure of that website from the beginning was about incitement,” said Rita Katz, executive director of SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors online extremism.

Often staffed in part by the formerly radicalized, they are on the front lines of the fight against right-wing extremism, a growing threat that is in the spotlight but which experts argue has long been neglected.

The vast majority joined the military for the right reasons, but even as extremism rises in society broadly, it will rise in the military.

From Time

In other words, we have evidence that a member of Congress promoted the kind of extremism and even bloodlust that led to an attempted insurrection at the Capitol.

Moscow-based Editor in Chief Galina Timchenko was fired for ‘extremism’ after running an article on Ukraine.

The defeat of Islamic extremism requires both hard and soft power responses.

What these men do have is a muscular hold on popular disgust with religious extremism.

As Assaf put it, “this is one way to reject extremism and make it so the people are not afraid.”

According to Pew, more than three in five Americans are very concerned about the rise of Islamic extremism.

Because of this extremism, his voice was doomed to remain that of one crying in the wilderness.

We have a diplomatic strategy that is rallying the world to join in the fight against extremism.

We're also standing against the forces of extremism embodied by the regime in Tehran.

We're also standing against the forces of extremism in the Holy Land, where we have new cause for hope.

It is from this enthusiasm and extremism that there sounds one of the key-notes of woman's nature--her loyalty.

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