boosterism
noun
boost·er·ism
ˈbü-stər-ˌi-zəm 
: the activities and attitudes characteristic of boosters
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Her article asserts that hometown boosterism keeps people from assessing the crime problem accurately.
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This kind of boosterism—no less evident in Bernard Lewis’s highbrow argument in The New Yorker that Muslims fear modernity than in Niall Ferguson’s entreaties for the Bush Administration to resume the British Empire’s task of civilizing the natives—always seemed bafflingly sterile to me.
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Christine Smallwood, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
Hochul’s nuclear boosterism contradicts it.
—Manna Jo Greene, New York Daily News, 16 Mar. 2026
As a result, market forces and AI boosterism — rather than strategic safeguards negotiated through collective bargaining — are the factors most likely to shape how AI disrupts and embeds itself in the region’s film sector.
—Mathew Scott, HollywoodReporter, 16 Mar. 2026
Trump sticks with tariffs The dissonance between Trump’s economic boosterism and Americans’ pervasive cost-of-living concerns presents a challenge as the president works to sell his vision in the State of the Union.
—Zac Anderson, USA Today, 21 Feb. 2026
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Christine Smallwood, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
Hochul’s nuclear boosterism contradicts it.
—Manna Jo Greene, New York Daily News, 16 Mar. 2026
As a result, market forces and AI boosterism — rather than strategic safeguards negotiated through collective bargaining — are the factors most likely to shape how AI disrupts and embeds itself in the region’s film sector.
—Mathew Scott, HollywoodReporter, 16 Mar. 2026
Trump sticks with tariffs The dissonance between Trump’s economic boosterism and Americans’ pervasive cost-of-living concerns presents a challenge as the president works to sell his vision in the State of the Union.
—Zac Anderson, USA Today, 21 Feb. 2026
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“Boosterism.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boosterism. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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