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noun

ideology

CEFR B2

an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or nation

In a sentence

Six example sentences with ideology, each labelled with its topic.

  • The party's ideology showed in every plank of its platform, from fuel taxes to school lunches.

    Politics

  • The pamphlets circulating in Philadelphia carried an ideology that made colonial merchants question a king for the first time.

    History

  • Orwell's novels expose how an ideology can rewrite yesterday's newspapers until nobody remembers what was printed.

    Literature

  • Free market ideology shaped the reforms more than any data, and the ministry never tested whether privatization actually lowered prices.

    Economics

  • Marx used ideology to mean the set of ideas that makes a society's arrangements feel natural to those living inside them.

    Philosophy

  • Psychologists find that ideology shapes what people remember, since facts that flatter the group stick and inconvenient ones fade.

    Psychology

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