militaristic
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“We’re a bit skeptical that people are going to achieve their goals pursuing their militaristic policies. Things don’t seem to ever work out the way that leaders imagined.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 21, 2026
“I’ve been working with cheerleading iconography for the past few years,” she said, linking the imagery to what she calls an omnipresent football culture layered with “American patriotism and militaristic qualities.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026
Its pseudo-futuristic vision is militaristic, stainless-steel fortified, masculinist, individualistic, and unforgiving.
From Slate ● Mar. 15, 2025
During his Nobel Peace Prize speech, Martin Luther King Jr. declared: “I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear destruction.”
From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2024
But other parents considered the Hitler Youth too militaristic.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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