How to Use communism in a Sentence

communism

noun
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  • The monarchy faced threats from communism on the left and fascism on the right.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 30 July 2021
  • Trump is not your last stand against the deep state against communism.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2021
  • What destabilizes that wing of the party is the Cold War and the threat of communism.
    — How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 4 May 2023
  • East Germans were freed from the dull yoke of communism.
    — The Economist, 3 Oct. 2020
  • Puhoi, like all villages in Moldova, has changed a lot since the fall of communism in 1991.
    — Madeline Roache / Puhoi, Time, 29 Aug. 2019
  • The end of communism in 1989 opened the door to restitution claims, most of which would be coming from Poles.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2021
  • The past three decades have proved to be a mere false start for Russia because the problems of communism are still with us.
    — Robert D. Kaplan, WSJ, 8 June 2022
  • My father was brought up with this bright idea of communism.
    — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Nov. 2017
  • Later, in the Cold War, the country waged a global fight against communism.
    — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Tens of thousands took to the streets across the country last year to protest the change, in perhaps the biggest show of public anger since the fall of communism.
    — NBC News, 16 Sep. 2021
  • After the war, Hoover’s main obsession was the threat of communism.
    — Jack Goldsmith, The Atlantic, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The company set up an office in Saigon to try to win the hearts and minds of Vietnamese peasants to stop the spread of communism.
    — Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2020
  • The crimes of capitalism and communism alike are blamed on Jews.
    — Andrew Doran, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2022
  • The color red is a rallying cry to the communism that Joe Biden is spreading throughout the U.S.
    — Sarah Hutto, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2022
  • The West was the free world, standing for democracy, and opposed to communism.
    — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 24 Mar. 2022
  • His efforts to revitalize the Soviet Union led to the collapse of communism there and the end of the Cold War.
    — Bernard McGhee, al, 31 Dec. 2022
  • This song is a letter from Randy to Karl Marx, explaining to him the failures of communism.
    — Nick Williams, Billboard, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Many of the older generation came to the United States after the fall of Saigon, and a fear of communism runs deep.
    — Sabrina Tavernise, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2020
  • Hundreds of thousands have emigrated since the end of communism in the 1990s and the chaos that ensued.
    — Nick Squires, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The collapse of the Soviet Union and decline of communism in the early ’90s shook the political world of the right.
    — Kim Phillips-Fein, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2022
  • There may be no going back without the collapse of communism on the mainland.
    — Doug Bandow, National Review, 10 Feb. 2024
  • The waves of pagan barbarians, heresies, communism, and all the false gods.
    — Andrew Doran, National Review, 3 Mar. 2022
  • While a portion of those who came to Spain were aligned with Soviet communism, most were not.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2021
  • How does a man go from hating communism, to having to deal, to having to sit and be face-to-face with a communist?
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • These strategies took shape during the Soviet Union when the goal in Moscow was to spread communism across the world.
    — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Feb. 2022
  • At one point, Ted Cruz skittered past to prepare for a floor speech about the rise of communism in Latin America.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2022
  • All that is left of communism in China is the name of the Chinese Communist Party.
    — Barbara Demick, The New York Review of Books, 3 Nov. 2020
  • Roosevelt’s critics equated it to the rise of communism.
    — Livia Gershon, Longreads, 22 May 2018
  • The beginning of the Cold War created a divide in Japan between people who were either for or against communism.
    — Nathan Pugh, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024
  • For scholars such as Michael Rogin, hordes of giant insects represented communism.
    — Salama Udaipurwala, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2024

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