How to Use social liberalism in a Sentence
social liberalism
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As a Libertarian, Holbrook’s policy platform is a mix of shrinking government and social liberalism.
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Jack Harvel
july 28,
Kansas City Star,
28 July 2026
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By marrying centrist economics to social liberalism, Change UK likely hopes to set up a new fight in British politics, rather than sitting in the middle and splitting the difference.
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Anand Menon,
Foreign Affairs,
8 Apr. 2019
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Kennedy has managed to bridge three specific tendencies—toward fiscal conservatism, social liberalism, and a belief that improving societal health is a moral imperative—and present them as one overarching ideology.
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Nicholas Florko,
The Atlantic,
16 Oct. 2025
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Although San Francisco was the inheritor of a distinctly American brand of social liberalism, tech elites were countercultural (in the sense that the more conservative ones cast their politics as a rebellion against the woke mainstream).
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Literary Hub,
15 Oct. 2025
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For instance, classical liberalism is markedly different from social liberalism, but not necessarily economic liberalism.
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Big Think,
11 Sep. 2025
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