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politician
noun as in person pursuing or occupying elective office
Example Sentences
Scientists and politicians began this pandemic with almost no data on this coronavirus.
In packing, politicians cram voters from the opposing party into just a few districts, securing the remaining districts for their own party.
Under the new measures, Facebook says it will prohibit politicians and campaigns from running new election ads in the week before the election.
So, we don’t need to wait to change the actual rules of the game to deliver politicians to office who can act independently of the existing political-industrial complex.
Maybe riots made it easier for politicians like Nixon to tap into existing racial resentment that enables punitive policies against minority communities.
They are model citizens, the kind of people whose lives might be used as exemplary stories by a politician in a stump speech.
“He is a lifetime politician,” said one D.C.-based consultant.
Which politician wants to defend federally-subsidized abortions for convicted criminals?
He reiterated the statements “I am not a politician” and “I am not a political advisor” so often that it seemed like a verbal tic.
“François Hollande never said a word out of line to me or behaved inappropriately with me—unlike many a politician,” she writes.
The Marshal proved how often a strong soldier may be a weak politician, and in 1834 he resigned office.
Had he in him the makings of the mere trimmer and politician, in addition to the miserable vanity that had riven him to-day?
Col. Moore, a veteran politician of the Old Dominion, was a most pleasant and affable gentleman, and a great lisper withal.
I shall manage these men far better than Colton, who is the crudest type of American politician.
He started out as a mere or'nary politician, but the Democratic Boss took him up and his ambitions are growing.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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