high road

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Recent Examples on the Web If 2016 Obama was singing the virtues of the high road, firmly but selectively pushing back on a presidential candidate who had peddled falsehoods about her husband, her 2020 speech shot fire from that high road by using Trump’s words against him. Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2020 In a legislature with a Republican supermajority that’s not open to gay rights – an LGBTQ nondiscrimination bill has been introduced 10 times and hasn’t become law – Antonio has learned to take the high road. cleveland, 30 Dec. 2022 But on Friday, Crawford characteristically took the high road in his comments to The Chronicle. John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Dec. 2022 If the time comes when your husband becomes too incapacitated to visit his daughter and the rest of the family, please take the high road and do the compassionate thing. Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 21 Dec. 2022 See all Example Sentences for high road 

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“High road.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/high%20road. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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