How to Use anti-elite in a Sentence

anti-elite

adjective
  • Strongly agreeing about one or more counted as holding the anti-elite attitude.
    — Thomas Shull, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2026
  • And that did lead to the significant rise of anti-elite feelings among Harris voters.
    — Thomas Shull, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2026
  • If anti-elite sentiment rises, ask whether your category has become too distant.
    — Sarah Davanzo, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2026
  • And those conspiracy theories are usually anti-elite, going back to we the people.
    — Alex Hinton, The Conversation, 18 Nov. 2025
  • Hanania’s dalliance with the tech right showed him what happens when otherwise smart people adopt an anti-elite political identity.
    — Gilad Edelman, The Atlantic, 19 July 2026
  • And as new movie Send Help continues to defy box office expectations, its anti-elite plot deserves some of the credit.
    — Alexa Beck, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2026
  • When anti-elite sentiment is bipartisan, the real swing voter becomes the disgruntled partisan.
    — Will Johnson, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • The anti-interventionist, anti-elite principles that first propelled her to Congress also remain core to her identity.
    — Sam Gringlas, NPR, 22 Nov. 2025
  • The same survey found that people who embraced anti-elite and anti-expert attitudes were more likely to accept coronavirus conspiracy theories.
    — Art Jipson, The Conversation, 30 July 2026
  • The Epstein files MAGA also has a strong populist and anti-elite streak of conspiracy thinking.
    — Alex Hinton, The Conversation, 26 Mar. 2026
  • In Kakistocracy, Hanania defines populism as a fundamentally anti-elite form of politics.
    — Gilad Edelman, The Atlantic, 19 July 2026
  • The President and police have since apologized for Affan’s death, but his passing only deepened anti-government and anti-elite sentiment among the protesters.
    — Chad De Guzman, Time, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Winters, a political science professor at Northwestern University, said Steyer’s anti-elite rhetoric didn’t entirely shield him from those realities.
    — Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 10 June 2026

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