politic

Example Sentences

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“I wonder what this could have been with a real politic, with the people who make culture a part of it instead of using us to cosign this,” she mused.

From Los Angeles Times

“Don’t bore me with the price of bread,” the King sings when Mortimer confronts him with the ruin that his favor for Gaveston has unleashed on the body politic.

From New York Times

As much as the war waxed and waned in the public consciousness, Afghanistan was, by virtue of the troops serving there, part of the American body politic for 20 years.

From New York Times

“If they have a handful of just absolutely harebrained folks doing and saying zany things,” Democrats “will be rolling in the dough and the body politic will continue to disintegrate and degrade,” Meijer said.

From Washington Post

The impact of a major assassination on the already feverishly divided U.S. body politic today would be too awful to consider.

From Washington Post