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Partisanship and polarization have raised the stakes as well.

Those controversial nominations will decide more than the future of the Justice Department, the Defense Department, the intelligence community and the vast Department of Health and Human Services — although those stakes are high enough.

"However, it’s an overdue symbolic decision to raise the stakes and demonstrate military support to Ukraine."

“Let’s raise the stakes...the person who finds the card can sit with me at a Pirates game in my suite,” Dunn wrote while reposting the Pirates’ offer for the card.

April’s EP “Pandora” raised the stakes for her writing and burgeoning fame.