Example sentences for: meritocratic

How can you use “meritocratic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It is nothing less than the death of one elite--the WASP Establishment--and the rise of another--the meritocratic establishment.

  • While conceding that beauty is useful, they argue that intelligence is a better weapon in today's meritocratic information economy--and that although Harris claims his models are "beautiful, healthy and intelligent," he offers no evidence of brains, such as IQ or SAT scores.

  • Both have trod a well-worn meritocratic path from A's in school to top-flight colleges to well-paying professions--without really knowing what they wanted to be once they got to wherever they were going.

  • He asserts that our meritocratic system is unfair, that it is an affront to our egalitarian ideals.

  • In these, no matter how great the meritocratic pretenses, the contest is always less completely open than it is in public institutions.


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