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countable and uncountable, plural ideologies
Doctrine, philosophy, body of beliefs or principles belonging to an individual or group. quotations examples
What is unbearable, in fact, is the feeling, 13 years after 9/11, that America has been chasing its tail; that, in some whack-a-mole horror show, the quashing of a jihadi enclave here only spurs the sprouting of another there; that the ideology of Al Qaeda is still reverberating through a blocked Arab world whose Sunni-Shia balance (insofar as that went) was upended by the American invasion of Iraq.
2014 November 17, Roger Cohen, “The horror! The horror! The trauma of ISIS ”, in The New York Times
Ideology constantly gets in the way. For the Government, unions are militant "Trots" out to cause political trouble. For the unions, the private sector is a grasping, evil leech. Neither is true.
2022 August 24, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Rail strikes deadlock”, in RAIL, number 964, page 3
(uncountable) The study of the origin and nature of ideas. examples