Thesaurus results for THIRD RAIL

third rail

noun

as in hot button

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Recent Examples on the Web The remark caused many Republicans to panic, who have treated Harris’s race as a political third rail. Republicans immediately started hitting the panic button, with some down-ballot candidates taking Trump’s statements on more directly than others. —

Brady Knox, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 1 Aug. 2024 But gambling had been the third rail of baseball ever since the Chicago White Sox took money to intentionally lose the World Series in 1919. —

Lee Cowan, CBS News, 19 Oct. 2014 The treatment of conscripts has been a political third rail in the past for Russia. —

Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 16 Aug. 2024 Closing military installations is another third rail. —

Kathleen Hicks, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2020 See all Example Sentences for third rail

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