exceptionalism
noun
ex·cep·tion·al·ism
ik-ˈsep-sh(ə-)nə-ˌli-zəm 
: the condition of being different from the norm
also
: a theory expounding the exceptionalism especially of a nation or region
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This shared sense of exceptionalism was also the common factor in the country’s two otherwise contradictory foreign-policy traditions, as Henry Kissinger pointed out in 1994, at a moment of unipolar American primacy.
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Andreas Kluth, The Mercury News, 25 June 2024
The Present Is this the end of the myth of American exceptionalism?
—Big Think, 24 June 2024
Bowing to the demands of special interests whose only interest is maintaining agricultural exceptionalism only precipitates a sooner reckoning with environmental crises, which will force farming to change whether farmers want to or not.
—Jan Dutkiewicz, Vox, 2 May 2024
More broadly, tongue-in-cheek critiques of American commercialism, exceptionalism, and unfettered capitalistic greed are at the core of the series.
—Jack King, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2024
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Andreas Kluth, The Mercury News, 25 June 2024
The Present Is this the end of the myth of American exceptionalism?
—Big Think, 24 June 2024
Bowing to the demands of special interests whose only interest is maintaining agricultural exceptionalism only precipitates a sooner reckoning with environmental crises, which will force farming to change whether farmers want to or not.
—Jan Dutkiewicz, Vox, 2 May 2024
More broadly, tongue-in-cheek critiques of American commercialism, exceptionalism, and unfettered capitalistic greed are at the core of the series.
—Jack King, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2024
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“Exceptionalism.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/exceptionalism. Accessed 7 Jul. 2024.
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