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This Stasi-worthy logrolling is how the media propagandize for the propagandist.
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Armond White, National Review, 25 Oct. 2023
Even with the stoutest of disclosures, this form of op-edding would smack of legal logrolling.
—Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 27 June 2018
While old-fashioned logrolling and interest-group politics has actually improved the original proposal already, further improvements will require serious attention to the nature of the research culture involved.
—Yuval Levin, National Review, 17 May 2021
Petitioners shouldn’t bundle unrelated issues together, a practice derisively known as logrolling.
—BostonGlobe.com, 26 Nov. 2019
Incarnate Word sophomore Ameer King hates the Cardinals’ logrolling drill.
—Greg Luca, ExpressNews.com, 21 Aug. 2019
This is political logrolling disguised as public necessity.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2019
But hey, everybody hates taxes, and why should this industry be cut out of the logrolling big barbecue of a bill that is largely based on the idea that tax cuts pay for themselves?
—Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 21 Dec. 2017
Trump, of course, has not helped in the way a standard president would—bringing lawmakers along, participating in logrolling and horse-trading, using his own expertise to find the right formulas.
—Norm Ornstein, The Atlantic, 21 Aug. 2017
Armond White, National Review, 25 Oct. 2023
Even with the stoutest of disclosures, this form of op-edding would smack of legal logrolling.
—Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 27 June 2018
While old-fashioned logrolling and interest-group politics has actually improved the original proposal already, further improvements will require serious attention to the nature of the research culture involved.
—Yuval Levin, National Review, 17 May 2021
Petitioners shouldn’t bundle unrelated issues together, a practice derisively known as logrolling.
—BostonGlobe.com, 26 Nov. 2019
Incarnate Word sophomore Ameer King hates the Cardinals’ logrolling drill.
—Greg Luca, ExpressNews.com, 21 Aug. 2019
This is political logrolling disguised as public necessity.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2019
But hey, everybody hates taxes, and why should this industry be cut out of the logrolling big barbecue of a bill that is largely based on the idea that tax cuts pay for themselves?
—Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 21 Dec. 2017
Trump, of course, has not helped in the way a standard president would—bringing lawmakers along, participating in logrolling and horse-trading, using his own expertise to find the right formulas.
—Norm Ornstein, The Atlantic, 21 Aug. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for logrolling
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Sony picked up domestic rights in exchange for a distribution fee.Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Nov. 2024
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He was traded from the Pittsburgh Steelers to the Panthers this past offseason, with the Steelers sending Johnson and a seventh-round pick to Carolina in exchange for cornerback Donte Jackson and a sixth-round pick.David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Nov. 2024
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Iran’s supreme leader has still vowed to further retaliate against Israel, part of a back-and-forth since April that has drawn in the U.S. to help defend Israel against Iranian missiles.Laura Kelly, The Hill, 5 Nov. 2024
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Buffalo Bills 30, Miami Dolphins 27: Tyler Bass delivered a thrilling win for Buffalo, which won a back-and-forth tussle against a desperate division rival.Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2024
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Even golfers and soccer players, who sometimes chew gum, do not commonly have pockets full of loose seeds, or barter with children for bags of Nerds Gummy Clusters.Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2024
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Our last stop was Mattancherry, once home to the large spice markets where traders came to bid and barter.Abraham Verghese, Travel + Leisure, 24 July 2024
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Noninterest income increased to $7.0 million, driven by gains on the sale of mortgage servicing rights and higher swap fee income.Quartz Bot, Quartz, 7 Nov. 2024
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He was returned to the U.S. last year as part of a large prisoner swap deal with Venezuela.Elias Lopez, CBS News, 5 Nov. 2024
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Under the Golden State’s constitution, a governor has near unlimited power to grant clemency, which includes commutations of sentence and pardons.Dominic Patten, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2024
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Executive clemency can be a pardon, which voids a person’s federal criminal conviction, or commutation, which terminates any prison or jail sentence.Dan Mangan, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2024
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Only weeks ago, a similar shooting incident occurred when soldiers opened fire on a truck, killing six migrants in the southern state of Chiapas.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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Or one person working at a small company can be wearing multiple hats — doing the books and pitching in to unload trucks — triggering some gaps about retirement benefits when the person with all that knowledge leaves the company.Susan Tompor, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2024
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On July 7, after months of on-and-off negotiations, Redstone clinched a deal to merge the media conglomerate with Skydance.Todd Spangler, Variety, 5 Nov. 2024
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There was little love lost between them – over the state of negotiations with Hamas, Israel’s military strategy and Netanyahu’s bid to bring in a sweeping overhaul of the judiciary in 2023.Tara John, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
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In 2023, China accounted for 98 percent of North Korea’s official trade volume.Sungmin Cho, Foreign Affairs, 12 Nov. 2024
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But that has been analyzed and dismissed by almost every economist and trade group in the country to look at it.Peter Green, Quartz, 9 Nov. 2024
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“Logrolling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/logrolling. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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