How to Use politics in a Sentence

politics

noun
  • It’s not just politics these days for the long-time friends.
    Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2021
  • There doesn’t seem to be a place for me [in politics] right now.
    Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 29 May 2020
  • How to have the base politics of culture war without the costs of the Big Lie?
    Abdul El-Sayed, The New Republic, 3 June 2022
  • But, on both sides of the Atlantic, politics is in flux.
    John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2019
  • In the wake of this latest tragedy, Sen. Cruz is right about one thing: The politics must stop.
    Julian Zelizer, CNN, 25 May 2022
  • Just not the politics ones because that’s a whole thing.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 17 July 2023
  • Some call it the 'my way or the highway' approach to politics.
    CBS News, 8 Nov. 2019
  • To the point where, like, honestly, of all the news taking place in the world, politics is not at the top of our list.
    Matthew Belloni, Popular Mechanics, 5 Sep. 2017
  • In politics, the best and the brightest Black folks quite often don’t run.
    Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2022
  • As for Klobuchar, politics wasn’t even on her radar at that point.
    Robin Marty, Cosmopolitan, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Musk’s politics are, like the man himself, hard to pin down.
    Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 4 Apr. 2022
  • If politics is about the moment, then Joe Biden is right in the moment.
    Christopher Keating, courant.com, 28 Aug. 2020
  • But then again, all of us in politics need somebody to watch over us.
    Justin L. MacK, Indianapolis Star, 28 Mar. 2018
  • And for a long time, regardless of sort of the politics at the top, people were doing a lot of the same stuff.
    The Atlantic, 9 June 2020
  • But even the way the campaign has been run so far has shown that things aren’t politics as usual.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The politics of pluralism run, as Raskin likes to note, in his blood.
    Nathan Heller, Vogue, 4 Jan. 2022
  • But in politics, blunders must be hugged all the closer to one’s breast.
    Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 13 July 2018
  • In your 5G-wannabe world, politics is that dusty ol’ fax machine in the corner.
    Dave Murphy, SFChronicle.com, 17 Dec. 2019
  • For now, Liu, at least, is likely hoping that politics don’t get in the way.
    Grady McGregor, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2020
  • Others have less of a track record of mixing it up in politics.
    Sam Dean, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2021
  • Levy is less engaged with politics than Smith and much more present in her text than Cusk.
    BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Does this not prove that fault and debt cannot be resolved on the worldly field where politics plays out?
    Joshua Mitchell, National Review, 26 Oct. 2017
  • This dovetails with the rise of big money and dark money in politics.
    Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2022
  • Why meddle in politics this way and alienate half of the country?
    Jerry Bowyer, National Review, 5 May 2021
  • Isn’t that the way politics goes in this country lately?
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 1 July 2024
  • But this was a moment that took place outside the horse race of electoral politics.
    Connor Sheets | Csheets@al.com, al, 2 June 2020
  • In a less-than-ideal world, no one should be shocked that politics is going on here.
    Logan Jenkins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 June 2018
  • But the issue got caught up in a web of partisan politics.
    Praduman Jain, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Observers once thought the limit of their vote share was around 20%, said Markus Wagner, a politics professor at the University of Vienna.
    Alexander Smith, NBC News, 13 Oct. 2024
  • Them’s news and politics newsletter, delivered to your inbox every Thursday.
    Abby Monteil, Them, 5 Nov. 2024

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