How to Use neocon in a Sentence

neocon

noun
  • You n me with the justice league in place to drain the f--- neocon/corporate swamp.
    — Caroline Thayer, Fox News, 2 Nov. 2024
  • That's precisely why neocon donors [who want more aid for Ukraine] fear him.
    — Axios, 16 July 2024
  • What turned things was the neocon project to invade Iraq and overthrow Saddam.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Twelve years later, Bush’s son followed the neocons’ bidding.
    — Nina Burleigh, The New Republic, 17 Mar. 2023
  • China, reviving the name of a famous neocon Cold War think tank.
    — Adele M. Stan, The New Republic, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Frum and Brooks discuss the origins of the term neocon, what the neocons got right, and why they should be listened to today.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2026
  • If neocon values are worth applying to the world, they should be applied consistently.
    — Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Some of the neocons never abandoned liberalism or the Democrats.
    — E.j. Dionne Jr., The Mercury News, 1 June 2017
  • Israel is more emboldened than it's ever been, even during eras when the neocons were actually in charge!
    — Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 June 2025
  • At the time, the neocons insisted that their plan would not involve actually employing force.
    — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 17 June 2026
  • The former leftists who dreamed of spreading democracy at the barrel of a gun, after all, were only one part of the neocon movement.
    — Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2026
  • David Brooks on moral collapse, the limits of politics, and what the neocons got right about America.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Bolton was a disgruntled former employee, a neocon, a money-grubber with a two-million-dollar book to sell.
    — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2020
  • And then along comes the war; a bunch of the neocons, like Irving Kristol, served in World War II.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2026
  • But Fukuyama seems to have finally made a break from the profound cultural pessimism of the Straussian neocons.
    — Win McCormack, The New Republic, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Maybe one day democracy really will bloom like wildflowers across the vast deserts of the Middle East, just as the neocons envisioned.
    — Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 June 2025
  • The radical strain, associated with the neocons, called for a universal democratization, by force if need be.
    — Keith Gessen, New York Times, 8 May 2018
  • The charge gained credibility — or at least plausibility — because some of the highest profile neocons were Jewish.
    — Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2026
  • This faith caused the neocons to recoil in from the Obama administration’s 2015 nuclear deal with Iran.
    — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 17 June 2026
  • By contrast, the neocons, the coterie of interventionists who long ago developed a reputation as the brains of the conservative movement, have been rather slow on the uptake.
    — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 17 June 2026
  • Interventionists and even neocons are not damning Trump for not landing troops in Syria or not sending enough reinforcements to Afghanistan.
    — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Krauthammer spent his political youth as a liberal-ish speechwriter for Walter Mondale and ended up a neocon on Fox News.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2019
  • The non-Never Trump neocon migration to national conservatism was entirely predictable.
    — W. James Antle Iii, The Week, 13 Feb. 2022
  • For too long, the debate has focused on the paleocon and neocon positions, ignoring the question of whether there remains a Republican center on foreign policy.
    — Michael Auslin, National Review, 5 Nov. 2019
  • Is his American Sniper a hunk of jingoistic propaganda or a mythic deconstruction of the same, neocon pandering or one of the more enigmatic anti-war films to emerge from the War of Terror?
    — Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 13 Dec. 2019
  • In the transition from enfant terrible to elder statesman, Mamet refashioned himself as a neocon crank, sounding off like a regular contributor to the comments section of Breitbart News.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2023
  • The example given is the war in Ukraine, which was engineered by Russia-hating neocon Victoria Nuland in singular pursuit of her own ideological interests.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 22 June 2024
  • Kirkpatrick and her neocon confreres overcame their embarrassment at their down-market coalition partners and made the leap to Reagan nonetheless; Kirkpatrick ended up his United Nations ambassador.
    — Rick Perlstein, The New Republic, 14 Aug. 2020
  • Moreover, during the Iraq war, the Jewish community could effectively argue that framing the conflict as a Jewish neocon conspiracy was baseless, even as some neoconservatives influenced policy.
    — Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2026

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