How to Use virtue signaling in a Sentence
virtue signaling
noun
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But virtue signaling isn’t enough to reach savvy audiences.
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Goldie Chan,
Forbes,
22 Mar. 2023
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Of course, there’s no way to declare that the Doctor shouldn’t be Black that isn’t out-and-out racist, and so many of these comments are couched in attacks on the producers for wokeness or virtue signaling.
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Robert Lloyd,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Dec. 2023
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Governing is not about building a brand or talking on social media and virtue signaling.
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Chuck Todd,
NBC News,
15 May 2023
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Corporate America needs to say that, and yet the collective virtue signaling has been replaced by a collective clamming up.
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Beth Kowitt,
Twin Cities,
25 Jan. 2024
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In this new season, for instance, Brooke’s arc revolves around her ambivalence about celebrity and the pressure of pandemic-era social-media virtue signaling.
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Phillip MacIak,
The New Republic,
9 June 2023
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After the police killing of George Floyd in 2020, corporate America undertook a collective virtue signaling.
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Beth Kowitt,
Twin Cities,
25 Jan. 2024
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The series skewers white guilt, virtue signaling, high-art pretentiousness and reality TV contrivances.
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Ryan Faughnder,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Nov. 2023
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Thirty-four percent agreed with that, but a larger proportion, 39 percent, applied that same criticism to Republicans (where presumably the complaint isn’t about virtue signaling but about pampering the rich).
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Timothy Noah,
The New Republic,
23 Feb. 2023
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