Example Sentences

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For much of the 20th century, diversity and inclusion efforts were the work of patient incrementalists who simply sought to standardize education opportunities and hiring practices.

From Slate • Mar. 10, 2025

She rose briefly last fall to a commanding position as the center of gravity in the party between Sanders’s proposed revolution and the party’s incrementalists.

From Washington Post • Feb. 9, 2020

Like the specialists at the Graham Center, the generalists at Jamaica Plain are incrementalists.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 15, 2017

Many people work really hard every day, but they’re incrementalists.

From New York Times • Jul. 10, 2010

Anglicans, says Harmon ruefully, are incrementalists, and "that has continued through this season."

From Time Magazine Archive