grassroots

Example Sentences

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After years of building grassroots support for women's football, the federation is starting to see a payoff.

From Barron's

I have also seen first-hand how this has trickled down to grassroots.

From BBC

Wolf Alice, winning best group, used their allotted stage time to make a plea for the "pubs, clubs and grassroots venues where we quite literally learned to play our instruments and write our songs".

From BBC

The Greens had never won a parliamentary by-election before, and ran a grassroots campaign that sought to mobilise the constituency's 28 percent Muslim population.

From Barron's

The Society for Community Organization, a grassroots advocacy group, said the budget was lacking in welfare spending despite an uptick in government revenue.

From Barron's