logrolling

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Recent Examples of logrolling This Stasi-worthy logrolling is how the media propagandize for the propagandist. Armond White, National Review, 25 Oct. 2023 Our logrolling, our stumps and their politics, our fisheries, our Negroes and Indians, our boasts and our repudiations, the wrath of rogues and the pusillanimity of honest men, the northern trade, the southern planting, the western clearing, Oregon, and Texas, are yet unsung. Mark Edmundson, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022 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 Even with the stoutest of disclosures, this form of op-edding would smack of legal logrolling. Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 27 June 2018 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 In many democracies, of course, logrolling is neither rare nor necessarily bad. Eduardo Mello, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for logrolling
Noun
  • The Department of Justice has quietly walked back aggressive prosecutions, signalling that builders of non-custodial protocols aren’t the same as operators of centralized exchanges.
    Sean Lee, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • During the trial, after Cardi took the stand to deliver her testimony, several of her impassioned exchanges with the plaintiff's lawyer, Ron Rosen Janfaza, went viral due to her unfiltered, expletive-laced responses and animated expressions, including eye rolls and shrugs.
    Charna Flam, People.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The identity of the bargaining unit is also unclear.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Nurses at Howard Brown Health have voted to allow their bargaining team to call a strike amid contract talks and concerns about staffing and pay, according to their union.
    Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • After lightning delayed kickoff for an hour, Colleyville Heritage (1-1) fell behind quickly in a back-and-forth game.
    Jordan Neal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Amid the back-and-forth is more confusion for the general public.
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The colonists had a variety of methods of exchange from barter to foreign currency such as Spanish dollars.
    John Berlau, Forbes.com, 3 July 2025
  • She was known to barter paintings for medical bills, home repairs and tobacco.
    Patrick Sauer, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • Will either driver swap positions?
    Rob Reed, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • This will be the first October Harvest moon since 2020, and the swap happens every two to three years.
    Julia Gomez, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Newsom granted a commutation to Arthur Battle, convicted of murder for a 2006 contract killing.
    Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The commutation, one of 10 granted by the governor Friday, allows Cuong Tran to make his case for parole earlier than expected.
    Jason Green, Mercury News, 30 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Do not follow large vehicles closely - Large vehicles like trucks or buses can create a spray of water that can reduce your visibility.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The mission of those events is to get the truck in front of people who are interested in it, those who are already reservation holders and to introduce the company and truck to people who have never heard of Slate.
    Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Trump earlier this week said India had offered to cut its tariffs on American imports to zero, while complaining that the proposal had come too late in the negotiation.
    Priyanka Salve,Anniek Bao, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Hours earlier, the government announced that some 300 South Koreans who were detained in the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid last Thursday on the Hyundai-LG joint factory in southern Georgia will return to Korea on a chartered flight following negotiations with the US.
    Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025

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“Logrolling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/logrolling. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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