How to Use bipartisan in a Sentence

bipartisan

adjective
  • The bill has bipartisan support.
  • The proposals emerged from the bipartisan deal to raise the debt ceiling.
    Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Paisley performed the song live for the first time at the bipartisan gathering for 500 kids.
    Tom Roland, Billboard, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The bill passed in the Assembly with bipartisan support June 1 and moved on to the state Senate before it was put on hold.
    Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
  • And that is not just for Republicans, but in a bipartisan way, get things done for the country.
    CBS News, 24 Mar. 2024
  • The hearing comes as part of a bipartisan effort to clamp down on child safety rules across the internet.
    Emma Roth, The Verge, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The bills are backed by powerful business groups, but most of them have seen some bipartisan pushback.
    Lawrence Mower, Miami Herald, 18 Feb. 2024
  • The bipartisan vote came despite objections from dozens of members of the public.
    Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Despite bipartisan support, the bill’s chances may come down to money.
    Jackie Valley, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Even with bipartisan backing, the future of the gun shop measure is uncertain.
    John Diedrich, Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2023
  • But Congress is moving ahead with a potential ban on TikTok, with a bipartisan bill expected to make its way to the House for a vote very soon.
    Matt Novak / Gizmodo, Quartz, 8 Mar. 2024
  • But a Schumer spokesperson said there would be no such meeting with Democrats and that any discussions with the Israeli leader should be bipartisan.
    Chris Pandolfo, Fox News, 21 Mar. 2024
  • In part because this was a tax credit and not a government program, there was hope that the credit would be a bipartisan thing going forward.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The House bill is likely to face obstacles in the Senate, where a bipartisan effort last year to restrict TikTok petered out.
    Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 13 Mar. 2024
  • In early June, Biden finally spoke in prime time, from behind the Resolute Desk, about the bipartisan debt ceiling deal.
    Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 3 July 2023
  • The bipartisan legislation had 154 co-sponsors, according to Congress.gov, but did not receive a vote on the House floor before the term ended.
    Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Big Tech has become a bipartisan punching bag on Capitol Hill.
    Brian Fung, CNN, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The measure is expected to pass with strong bipartisan support.
    Lauren Peller, ABC News, 18 July 2023
  • In a rare move, the act was passed with bipartisan support of Democrats, Republicans and Independents.
    Michael C. Bolton, al, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Vance encouraged lawmakers to make this a bipartisan matter and vote to block mask mandates.
    Eden Villalovas, Washington Examiner, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The ban caps off a decades-long bipartisan effort to ban incandescent bulbs that started in the Bush administration.
    David Goldman, CNN, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Meanwhile, bipartisan negotiators in the Senate are struggling to strike a deal that might stem the crisis and overhaul immigration laws for the first time in nearly 40 years.
    CBS News, 31 Dec. 2023
  • But there is a sizable amount of bipartisan pushback and criticism of the president's handling of the situation.
    Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Days later, the bills advanced with bipartisan support out of the Senate Commerce Committee.
    Cristiano Lima, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The bipartisan Safer Communities Act last year invested in mental health care in schools.
    Abc News, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Manchin is aligned with No Labels, the bipartisan group working to get a potential third-party candidate on the ballot in November 2024.
    Ed O'Keefe, CBS News, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The film tax credit enjoys bipartisan support in Georgia.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 14 Dec. 2023
  • It must be approved by a majority of the 12 lawmakers, with at least three being from each party — ensuring that the plan is truly bipartisan.
    Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Burns is not alone in bemoaning the decline of bipartisan agreement on foreign policy.
    Jordan Tama, Foreign Affairs, 6 July 2023
  • There aren’t easy answers, and there hasn’t been much in the way of successful bipartisan compromise on the issue in some time — debates about the border are more likely to end up boiling over than landing on a solution.
    Ben Kamisar, NBC News, 10 Aug. 2023

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