How to Use environmentalist in a Sentence
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Which brings me back to my friend the environmentalist.
—Rob Wolfe, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2026
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Tribes and environmentalists hold high hopes that both the fall and spring salmon runs will rebound in a few years.
—Debra Utacia Krol, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2025
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That year was something of a heady time for environmentalists.
—Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026
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Ask an environmentalist about his top plan of action to fight climate change.
—Andy Kessler, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2020
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It’s been opposed for about as long by a long list of environmentalists and some who live in the region where the pipe might be built.
—Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 24 Aug. 2025
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At the table has to be labor and at the table have to be environmentalists.
—NBC News, 13 Sep. 2019
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The basic stance of mainstream environmentalists now is that the country is more or less on the right track.
—Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2024
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But environmentalists said there's still a long way to go since the enzyme only works on one type of plastic.
—CBS News, 18 Apr. 2018
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Even the environmentalists and the labor folks can come together on some of this stuff.
—Rebecca Traister, Daily Intelligencer, 1 Feb. 2018
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The power plant has been a target of environmentalists and some locals for years.
—Juan Salinas Ii, Austin American-Statesman, 27 Dec. 2024
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But environmentalists have been advocating for this type of shift for over two decades.
—Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2026
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The life of a globe-trotting environmentalist is a breeding ground for moral quandaries.
—Rob Wolfe, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2026
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And environmentalists warn that dredging projects that steal sand from offshore can do irreparable harm to coral reefs and sea life.
—Susannah Bryan, Sun-Sentinel.com, 8 June 2018
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For decades, loggers and environmentalists have clashed over the fate of its stately redwoods.
—Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026
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Mass protests broke out in 2022 – this time, not just among environmentalists.
—Harriet Marsden, The Week Uk, theweek, 14 Aug. 2024
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As with offshore wind farms, environmentalists have raised concerns about the impacts of wave projects on marine life.
—Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2025
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The Atlas Network folks tried all sorts of things to pain environmentalists as a huge threat.
—Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2026
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Now, a group of environmentalists and divers are pushing to protect the reef line just off South Beach.
—Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 1 June 2024
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The fleet also was under siege from environmentalists concerned about the damage the nets can cause as they are dragged across the sea bottom.
—Hal Bernton, The Seattle Times, 16 Apr. 2018
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The greatest threat to our forests has been the environmentalists, led by the Sierra Club.
—WSJ, 11 June 2023
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This month, things got more complicated —at least as environmentalists see it.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 26 Nov. 2025
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Some environmentalists and at least one former governor who has skied the terrain want to keep it as is, quiet in winter.
—Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 5 Oct. 2025
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But the power of the courts is clearly becoming one more arrow in the environmentalists’ quiver.
—TIME, 4 Jan. 2024
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But four years later, environmentalists sued the park service.
—Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2026
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The region was forest and little else then — a blanket of green that would have been an environmentalist’s Eden.
—Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2022
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As a longtime Maui environmentalist, Tina Lia wants to save the birds.
—Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Aug. 2023
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On Monday environmentalists urged the agency to move forward with that step.
—Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2025
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During the last two weeks, environmentalists reported that the project posed no problems for the area’s plant and animal life.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 29 Apr. 2026
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Gates admits his new approach will likely rile up environmentalists.
—PC Magazine, 1 Nov. 2025
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Now, as a father of two, the actor and environmentalist is trying to lead by example and pass down his values to his children.
—Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 6 May 2026
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Democrats who wanted to win primaries took the environmentalist stance.
—David Weigel, semafor.com, 14 July 2026
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That is pretty much the only moment in the movie when a character makes an overt statement with an aptly environmentalist agenda.
—Tomris Laffly, Time, 6 Sep. 2025
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But not all environmentalist advocates are convinced that the current bill delivers on the forest health front.
—Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 22 Jan. 2026
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But there is an obvious tension between bear hunting and environmentalist campaigns.
—Ben Taub, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
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Lambert knew that the industry needed to clean up its environmental practices in the face of extreme environmentalist pressure.
—James G. Naples, Fortune, 27 June 2026
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This view is credited with inspiring many to participate in the environmentalist movement.
—Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 25 May 2026
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Over the last five years as uranium has come in from the cold of environmentalist disapproval Cameco has delivered a stellar 600% share price increase.
—Tim Treadgold, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
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Spencer won by an unexpectedly wide margin to give the environmentalist Greens their fifth seat in the 650-seat House of Commons.
—ABC News, 26 Feb. 2026
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The 2018 film First Reformed cast him as a minister whose painful past coalesces with an environmentalist awakening in an epic crisis of faith.
—Judy Berman, Time, 23 Sep. 2025
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In addition to the environmentalist component of the protest there is democratic alarm at a political class accused of operating behind the backs of citizens by forcing and breaking the rules.
—Marzio G. Mian, Vanity Fair, 16 June 2026
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For a nominally environmentalist event, the summit had an unusual emphasis on professional development.
—Gaby Del Valle, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
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But Pattie Gonia says their environmental work is now endangered by Patagonia, the outdoor-gear giant that has espoused similar environmentalist values.
—Victoria Bekiempis, Vulture, 12 June 2026
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Designed in partnership with environmentalist Pattie Gonia and led by influential environmentalists, each trip offers insights into the issues, raising awareness and arming travelers with an advocacy toolkit.
—Chloe Berge, AFAR Media, 14 Aug. 2025
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Every year, charities with leadership linked to the CCP pump millions of dollars into American environmentalist charities, some of which work directly with the Chinese government to accomplish its policy goals.
—Robert Schmad, The Washington Examiner, 7 Sep. 2025
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But McCluskie and other Democratic lawmakers said the group, which has wielded significant influence over the legislature and the state through its ballot campaigns, should respect the truce reached between the energy industry and the environmentalist community.
—Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 8 May 2026
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Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s party has made a disappointing start to a year packed with German state elections, suffering a narrow defeat in an important industrial region after a prominent candidate powered the environmentalist Greens to a come-from-behind victory.
—Geir Moulson, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2026
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And the environmentalist work of Jennie Turner Garlington, his youngest child, has included serving as trustee of the Turner Foundation, on the boards of other wildlife conservation organizations and as a CNN TV producer for the network's now-defunct Environment Unit.
—Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 6 May 2026
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The agreement was listed in a stipulation Campbell's filed with two environmentalist groups, Environment America and Lake Erie Waterkeeper, which sued the company in March 2024, court records obtained by USA TODAY show.
—Saleen Martin, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
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