Example Sentences

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“People who listened to music in English weren’t viewed kindly because it was seen as the enemy’s music. Those who listened to it were accused of ‘ideological diversionism.’

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2021

Beatlemania has flourished belatedly on the Caribbean island, where authorities in the 1960s and 1970s considered Beatles songs "ideological diversionism."

From Reuters • Jun. 1, 2017

Summoned back from a sanitarium where he goes frequently for treatment of his old war wounds, Dedijer learned that he was being purged from government and party for the sin of "diversionism."

From Time Magazine Archive