Example Sentences

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This is no call to Luddism, and I’m far from an expert on doing this myself.

From Slate • Jan. 1, 2025

And by doing Luddism, they not only won important protections, but they illuminated this struggle in a way.

From Salon • Oct. 3, 2023

Mr. Baron, who denies charges of Luddism, concluded that any downside to less traditional newspaper stories was more than compensated by the ability to keep having newspapers.

From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2021

Here’s Ben Tarnoff with a provocative piece in The Logic calling for a revival of Luddism to counter oppressive technology of the sort Clearview manufactures.

From The Verge • Jan. 22, 2020

Luddism, fanatical opposition to the introduction of machinery as it originally manifested itself among the hand-loom weavers of the Midlands.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin