two-party

adjective

two-par·ty ˈtü-ˈpär-tē

: characterized by two major political parties of comparable strength

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The United States and Brazil also provide starkly different political environments for prosecuting former leaders because of the two-party system in the United States. —

Omar G. Encarnación, Foreign Affairs, 16 Jan. 2025 While our political system may employ a two-party system, all of us are a mixture of ideas and beliefs. —

Katherine Schulten, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025 These separate but related trends in education and culture have collided with the limited choice available in the United States’ two-party system. —

Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2025 The surprise collapse of three and then two-party talks aimed at cobbling together a centrist coalition that could serve as a bulwark against the far-right Freedom Party (FPO) after the FPO came first in September’s parliamentary election leaves President Alexander Van der Bellen with few options. —

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