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Recent Examples of bad faith
Union members authorized the strike, with 99% voting in support of it weeks after filing a complaint with the state’s Public Employment Relations Board alleging bad faith bargaining.
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Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2024
What this fight does tell us, however, is that unlike neighboring Korea, China’s foray into exporting its soft power will likely be fraught with distrust and even bad faith.
—Aja Romano, Vox, 4 Sep. 2024
Very quickly, the initial claims of trust and friendship would be followed by accusations of bad faith.
—Alexander J. Motyl, Foreign Affairs, 1 Feb. 2017
According to Gonzalez, bad faith financial actors can get extremely popular online by knowing how to market themselves.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2024
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Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2024
What this fight does tell us, however, is that unlike neighboring Korea, China’s foray into exporting its soft power will likely be fraught with distrust and even bad faith.
—Aja Romano, Vox, 4 Sep. 2024
Very quickly, the initial claims of trust and friendship would be followed by accusations of bad faith.
—Alexander J. Motyl, Foreign Affairs, 1 Feb. 2017
According to Gonzalez, bad faith financial actors can get extremely popular online by knowing how to market themselves.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bad faith
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Christina Corpus’ two-year tenure as San Mateo County sheriff has been plagued by dishonesty, conflicts of interest and her creation of a retaliatory and abusive work environment.—
Mercury News Editorial,
The Mercury News,
26 Jan. 2025
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Yes, but: If terminated, Norris receives pay and benefits for six months unless he's fired for specific reasons outlined in the contract, including willful dishonesty or fraud.—
Jason Clayworth,
Axios,
16 Jan. 2025
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He’s taken to publicly shaming GOP lawmakers on X and on Fox News, accusing them of hypocrisy by not supporting President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda.—
Lawrence Mower,
Miami Herald,
24 Jan. 2025
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But some pro-Israel and conservative influencers rushed to Musk’s defense, accusing Ocasio-Cortez and other progressives of hypocrisy for not loudly condemning Nazi sympathizers and salutes at pro-Palestinian protests.—
Andrew Lapin,
Sun Sentinel,
23 Jan. 2025
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Like any gadfly, Kennedy’s willingness to challenge institutions and conventional wisdom has sometimes led him to question things that needed questioning, not least during the Covid era’s riot of hubris and deceit in the public health sector.—
The Editors,
National Review,
29 Jan. 2025
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The casual deceit that had served him in prison was proving useful.—
Joshua Kaplan,
ProPublica,
4 Jan. 2025
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Queen’s duplicity and thirst for vengeance make a stunning showcase for Lewek’s electric sense of drama, brilliant tone, and spitfire technique.—
Matthew Gurewitsch,
airmail.news,
17 Aug. 2024
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The Cold War nurtured a culture of secrets and lies that the population came to tolerate as a strategic necessity; at the turn of the millennium, the war on terror took that duplicity to new levels of sophistication.—
Karen Parker Lears,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Dec. 2024
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The series was loosely inspired by the non-fiction book The Woman Who Fooled the World, written by Beau Donelly and Nick Toscano, the two journalists who uncovered the details of Gibson’s deception.—
Abid Rahman,
The Hollywood Reporter,
1 Feb. 2025
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One of the great joys of the U.S. version of The Traitors is watching familiar faces across the reality TV map converge in a game of strategy and deception (and, yes, mehrduhr).—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
30 Jan. 2025
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Biden’s half-century political career is littered with mendacity, self-dealing, and crass calculations.—
The Editors,
National Review,
2 Dec. 2024
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But conservatism ought not to be equated with populist buffoonery and mendacity.—
Jay Nordlinger,
National Review,
14 Oct. 2024
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