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political

[puh-lit-i-kuhl] / pəˈlɪt ɪ kəl /


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Her reporting examines how development and wealth intersect with political power, how geopolitical policy takes shape and how local trends and demographic shifts signal broader national patterns.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

Together they form solidarity, despite social, racial and political strains plaguing both sides of the border.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026

The SNP has selected Hannah Mary Goodlad - their only constituency candidate who doesn't have a political background of some sort.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

Moreover, anecdotes are not systematic data, and people vote and make political decisions for a range of reasons, including emotions and principles, that are not purely material or rational.

From Salon • Apr. 16, 2026

In other words, if he did not answer Burr’s challenge, he would be repudiating his well-known convictions, and in so doing, he would lose the respect of those political colleagues on whom his reputation depended.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis




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