How to Use partisanship in a Sentence

partisanship

noun
  • Still, the partisanship gap has rarely been this acute, Hsu said.
    Rob Wile, NBC News, 14 July 2023
  • This new earnest partisanship is, for the most part, going over well.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Feb. 2023
  • And that's due to the partisanship that is driving both parties.
    Dan Nowicki, The Arizona Republic, 7 May 2023
  • Perhaps the weirdest aspect of 2022 was the way that partisanship played out.
    Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 9 Feb. 2023
  • But the heart of the show is an off-the-cuff panel discussion that aims to cut through the bull— and predictable partisanship, and that will continue.
    Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Schrader, Lenkiewicz, and Pitt pushed feminist partisanship to the point of no-fun.
    Armond White, National Review, 25 Jan. 2023
  • By 2012, when the new primary rules took effect, partisanship was on the rise.
    John Myers, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2022
  • Extreme partisanship, which took hold long before Trump took control of the GOP, is part of the answer.
    Paul Krugman, The Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Furthermore, the lack of partisanship over the league goes back more than a decade, when the partisan wars were less intense.
    Dante Chinni, NBC News, 12 Feb. 2023
  • But much, maybe most, of this gap reflects partisanship.
    Paul Krugman, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2024
  • But the club's long tradition is to avoid partisanship.
    Deirdre Walsh, NPR, 8 May 2024
  • Yet even if Kennedy's complaint has merit, the FEC may not take action, in part because of partisanship.
    Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 20 June 2024
  • What comes across clearest is the din itself, a crescendo of partisanship in a realm that might’ve yielded common ground.
    Eric Boodman, STAT, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Those efforts to steer clear of partisanship were vital in a county where Donald Trump crushed Joe Biden by 20 points.
    Kyle Paoletta, The New Republic, 30 Oct. 2023
  • But, look, partisanship is just -- is rampant right now.
    ABC News, 12 Dec. 2021
  • With the sharpening partisanship in recent years and, for now, a speaker-less House, prospects for sweeping action seem next to none.
    Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The split between Shiite and Sunni started as partisanship over who should succeed the Prophet.
    Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The partisanship around global warming has eased some in recent years.
    Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2024
  • In the truest essence, ethic probes, when free of partisanship, can be a necessary tool to ensure good, fair governance.
    Sam Kmack, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2024
  • Groups Focusing on the two-way Biden-Trump race, results show the pull of partisanship and ideology.
    Gary Langer, ABC News, 5 May 2024
  • That finding from a new Economist/YouGov poll highlights how deeply partisanship still shapes views of Jan. 6.
    David Lautersenior Editor, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2023
  • But Murray said partisanship may have been the larger story of Election Night.
    Isabelle Schmeler, NBC News, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The vote to depose the House Speaker was a long time coming, and both parties have played a role in putting partisanship above institutional norms.
    Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 10 Oct. 2023
  • The poll found that the sentiment is heavily influenced by partisanship, with the uptick being led by Democrats.
    Alicia Wallace, CNN, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Here, too, partisanship has shaped the response: Among Republicans, 82% called the economy bad; among Democrats, about half that many did.
    David Lautersenior Editor, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2023
  • The point of the lawfare siege, which is the target of Trump’s constant ire and is thus scoffed at by his fans as ineffective partisanship, was to get Trump nominated.
    Brittany Bernstein, National Review, 17 Jan. 2024
  • That partisanship doesn’t erode Freeman’s confidence in the Court.
    Caroline Curran, ABC News, 8 July 2023
  • Even Willett has been critical of the harsh tone of some judicial opinions and partisanship.
    Ann E. Marimow, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Jan. 2023
  • The truncated 2024 campaign has been visible through a lens fractured by partisanship and new media, in which three dimensions become two.
    The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2024
  • Beyond partisanship, the kinds of organizations that are sponsoring and conducting polls matters, too.
    Mary Radcliffe, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2024

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