special interests

Example Sentences

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It would demonstrate that grassroots movements can overcome entrenched special interests.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

In the process, the LDP attracted all kinds of special interests, including farming and business lobbies, as well as religious groups, and multiple cases of corruption followed.

From Barron's • Feb. 6, 2026

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs said Monday that her administration is acting to “crack down on the out-of-state special interests that are pumping our state dry while Arizona families and farmers suffer.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 13, 2026

But we also shouldn’t assume that every autistic person is a version of Elon Musk, a socially awkward prodigy with a few charming or useful special interests.

From Slate • Sep. 25, 2025

They had special interests and different ideas about how to run what eventually would be called “a more perfect Union.”

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis