variants also idealogy
as in doctrine
the basic beliefs or guiding principles of a person or group members of that sect follow an ideology of nonviolence and freely given cooperation

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Recent Examples of ideology The court's three liberal members were united in the view that charter schools are quintessentially public institutions that cannot advance a specific ideology using taxpayer funds. Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 30 Apr. 2025 The job here is to enforce the federal civil rights laws, not woke ideology. Mohammed Soliman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025 Communism, or any other ideology the administration in power doesn’t agree with, might be defeated—but the terrorist never can, since terror is an unending wellspring, embodied by actual threats but also coming from within us and giving birth to ever-new demons. Viet Thanh Nguyễn, Time, 28 Apr. 2025 Follow More of Our Reporting on Politics & Government Trump orders ‘ideology’ removed from Smithsonian. Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 28 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for ideology
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Noun
  • Although the origins of the doctrine remain in some dispute, most scholars cite its first mention in ancient Roman law.
    Alexandra Klass, The Conversation, 2 May 2025
  • His isolationist tariff doctrine has already hit other major U.S. trade partners with sweeping duties on automobiles, steel and general imports.
    Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • That rapid transformation is embedded in one business philosophy of Hart’s: flexibility.
    Xandra Harbet, USA Today, 25 Apr. 2025
  • That same philosophy also guides our thinking beyond individual stocks.
    Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Now much of the party are true believers in the MAGA creed and most of the rest have accepted that going along with the program is a career requirement.
    Eric Cortellessa, Time, 25 Apr. 2025
  • For its 38,000 citizens, and the many visitors that travel to the second smallest country in the world, Mammon may appear to be the ruling creed.
    Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 21 Mar. 2025

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“Ideology.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ideology. Accessed 10 May. 2025.

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