exceptionalist
Americannoun
plural
exceptionalistsadjective
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They also clarify the damage wrought by our collective amnesia and our refusal to learn from history – an outgrowth of our propensity to view our place in history from an exceptionalist perspective.
From Salon • Apr. 30, 2025
Along the way Drake came to embody a streak of Englishness — bumptious, tenacious, patriotic, crafty, vainglorious and defiantly exceptionalist — that is back with a vengeance.
From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2021
Not everyone fared well—in the 2014 one, 30 million Americans died, primarily because of exceptionalist attitudes.
From Slate • Dec. 8, 2020
Even later, as much of the country acquiesced to the greed-is-good eighties and the end-of-history nineties, Esalen clung to its exceptionalist vibe.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 19, 2019
While King did care about black and/or poor people in the United States and around the world, he was no American exceptionalist.
From The Guardian • Jan. 15, 2018
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