Example Sentences

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And for the tribalist to win, you don’t have to join the tribe — you only have to recognize the legitimacy of tribal lines.

From Salon • Jun. 30, 2018

Writing for The Times’s Op-Ed page in February, Amy Chua, the Yale law professor who once extolled the merits of “tiger moms,” warned about the dangers of a “zero-sum tribalist contest.”

From New York Times • Jun. 26, 2018

But in this season of “Fargo,” the tribalist nature of the region runs a bit deeper still.

From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2015

A vain and cocky tribalist, Kalonji is an ex-railroad clerk who shortly after independence announced himself "king" of a rich diamond-mining area of South Kasai. which he called "Mining State."

From Time Magazine Archive