How to Use politics in a Sentence

politics

noun
  • Every conversation in those days had a way of coming around to politics.
    Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
  • The road ahead is paved with difficult, if not impossible, politics.
    Nicholas Florko, STAT, 4 May 2022
  • Johnson sees life and politics as chaos in which events happen, but those individuals with the energy to react quickest are able to profit.
    Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 16 Apr. 2022
  • The latest news, analysis and insights from our politics teams from Sacramento to D.C.
    Doyle McManuswashington Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2022
  • The policy’s legacy is being challenged in Alaska, where resource extraction is a key driver of the state’s politics.
    Anchorage Daily News, 29 Apr. 2022
  • The road ahead Even if this is a political issue, one impetus for immediate change has nothing to do with politics — and that is recruitment.
    Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Apr. 2022
  • The sequential structure of a cartoon strip is well suited to politics, but as the team learned in the case of the far-right candidate Éric Zemmour, not everything goes as planned.
    New York Times, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Check out most any right-of-center advocacy organization, think tank, of anything else associated with politics.
    John Tamny, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022
  • It’s not just politics these days for the long-time friends.
    Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2021
  • There doesn’t seem to be a place for me [in politics] right now.
    Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 29 May 2020
  • How to have the base politics of culture war without the costs of the Big Lie?
    Abdul El-Sayed, The New Republic, 3 June 2022
  • But, on both sides of the Atlantic, politics is in flux.
    John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2019
  • In the wake of this latest tragedy, Sen. Cruz is right about one thing: The politics must stop.
    Julian Zelizer, CNN, 25 May 2022
  • Just not the politics ones because that’s a whole thing.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 17 July 2023
  • Some call it the 'my way or the highway' approach to politics.
    CBS News, 8 Nov. 2019
  • To the point where, like, honestly, of all the news taking place in the world, politics is not at the top of our list.
    Matthew Belloni, Popular Mechanics, 5 Sep. 2017
  • In politics, the best and the brightest Black folks quite often don’t run.
    Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2022
  • As for Klobuchar, politics wasn’t even on her radar at that point.
    Robin Marty, Cosmopolitan, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Musk’s politics are, like the man himself, hard to pin down.
    Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 4 Apr. 2022
  • If politics is about the moment, then Joe Biden is right in the moment.
    Christopher Keating, courant.com, 28 Aug. 2020
  • But then again, all of us in politics need somebody to watch over us.
    Justin L. MacK, Indianapolis Star, 28 Mar. 2018
  • And for a long time, regardless of sort of the politics at the top, people were doing a lot of the same stuff.
    The Atlantic, 9 June 2020
  • But even the way the campaign has been run so far has shown that things aren’t politics as usual.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The politics of pluralism run, as Raskin likes to note, in his blood.
    Nathan Heller, Vogue, 4 Jan. 2022
  • But in politics, blunders must be hugged all the closer to one’s breast.
    Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 13 July 2018
  • In your 5G-wannabe world, politics is that dusty ol’ fax machine in the corner.
    Dave Murphy, SFChronicle.com, 17 Dec. 2019
  • For now, Liu, at least, is likely hoping that politics don’t get in the way.
    Grady McGregor, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2020
  • Others have less of a track record of mixing it up in politics.
    Sam Dean, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2021
  • There are therefore few incentives for U.S. companies to spend a lot of time and money building such markets and selling them to politics junkies.
    Felix Salmon, Axios, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Berger argued a papal conclave, where the College of Cardinals elects the next Pope behind closed doors, is as cutthroat as politics anywhere.
    Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2024

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