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ideology

[ahy-dee-ol-uh-jee, id-ee-] / ˌaɪ diˈɒl ə dʒi, ˌɪd i- /


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Instead, Kim Il Sung supplemented and eventually replaced Marxism-Leninism with the Chuch’e Ideology, a philosophy that the Great Leader, as Kim Il Sung was known, is said to have begun developing as a 14-year-old revolutionary.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

Or I’ll walk across the street to Ideology because the baristas there are heaven on earth.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2025

Guest: Mohammed Hafez, professor who studies Islamist movements, political militancy, and violent radicalization at the Naval Postgraduate School and author of Why Muslims Rebel and Suicide Bombers in Iraq: The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom.

From Slate • Nov. 2, 2023

Ideology may be the softest, gentlest form of power, but it is the key one in democratic societies.

From Salon • Jul. 2, 2023

The word Ideology, as denoting the term to express metaphysical science, seems to have arisen in the French school of De Tracy at the close of the last century.

From History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion by Farrar, Adam Storey




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