How to Use political football in a Sentence
political football
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The facts did not matter to those using the board and my appointment as a political football.
—Nina Jankowicz, Foreign Affairs, 7 Feb. 2024
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There’s a phrase for that in Washington: a political football.
—Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 July 2023
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President Trump got involved and the whole place became a kind of political football.
—IEEE Spectrum, 24 Nov. 2020
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But his death became a political football whose uses were difficult to foresee at the time.
—Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2024
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Education has also been a political football recently, and what that looks like is going to vary from state to state.
—Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2023
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Their idea of a new school at UNC, separate from the rest of the university, will become a political football, tossed back and forth as regimes change in Raleigh, while the reputation of the oldest state university in the land is trashed.
—WSJ, 22 Feb. 2023
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It was extended to government debt broadly in 1939, and thus became a political football.
—Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 13 May 2023
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Republicans and Democrats must work together to solve the funding problems for Social Security and Medicare, and stop using them as a political football.
—WSJ, 24 Feb. 2023
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The conservative news and commentary channel Newsmax will return to the lineup of satellite giant DirecTV, nearly two months after a carriage dispute broke out and became a political football.
—Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2023
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The film has the potential to become a political football over Barbies of varying ethnicities, body types, disabilities and identities; a childlike depiction of a world map has already led to its being banned in Vietnam.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2023
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Alabama representatives in Congress have alleged Biden has made the selection process a political football.
—Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 26 Jan. 2023
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Multi-year operational budgets for government agencies will lower the costs of these contracts and prevent politicians from using government services as a political football.
—Gillian Brassil, Sacramento Bee, 5 Feb. 2024
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The decision will surely become a political football during this wild political season.
—Robert Litan, Foreign Affairs, 16 Mar. 2016
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Progressive councilors and advocacy groups warned that Mattapan was becoming a political football.
—Emma Platoff, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2023
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