partisanship

noun

par·ti·san·ship ˈpär-tə-zən-ˌship

-sən-,

-ˌzan-,

chiefly British ˌpär-tə-ˈzan-

: the quality or state of being partisan : strong and sometimes blind adherence to a particular party, faction, cause, or person

political partisanship

The Court is so riven by partisanship that justices even pick their law clerks in ways influenced by ideology …—

Anthony Lewis

The succession of Civil War, Reconstruction and the Gilded Age was marked by bitter partisanship, endemic corruption, appalling violence and a general sense that democracy was failing.—

Jon Grinspan

Examples of partisanship in a Sentence

partisanship can discourage any serious search for the truth there's a pervasive partisanship in the company that prevents it from acknowledging that other companies are outpacing it with innovative ideas

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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 Media fragmentation, partisanship, and distrust of legacy news outlets, particularly from the right, now prevent campaigns from directly pitching through mainstream media. —

Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Nov. 2024 However, this election could be different, with voters prioritizing other issues or partisanship over any economic gains, a recent swing state survey from bill pay network Doxo indicated. —

Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024 These biases can leak out subtly though, and the additional training that models receive to restrict their output can introduce further partisanship. —

Will Knight, WIRED, 30 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for partisanship