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Recent Examples of bedfellow Seemingly strange bedfellows are making the case to protect public lands from auction. Joanna Allhands, AZCentral.com, 15 Aug. 2025 But while the vehicles in this context are meant to be destroyed, the Air Force seeking out the Tesla brand is just another example of how Big Tech and the Department of Defense have become unlikely bedfellows, one defense spending expert said. Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2025 Here in corporate America, while Trump makes bedfellow with big soda, reclaiming our health is up to consumers. Jennifer Lutz, New York Daily News, 29 July 2025 President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement has long been a coalition of strange bedfellows. Emily Baker-White, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for bedfellow
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Noun
  • Many of the president’s supporters have backed his moves to combat drug trade in the region, however, some Republicans, including Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, as well as many Democrats, have expressed concern over the president’s unilateral decisions.
    Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
  • America’s farmers are among the president’s most dependable supporters.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In Australia, the bounce is his ally.
    Sukhman Singh, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Vladimir Lenin believed that such families were a prison for women, and his revolutionary comrades—among them, his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya; his mistress Inessa Armand; and his ally Alexandra Kollontai—were assigned the task of freeing them from it.
    Julia Ioffe, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2025

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“Bedfellow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bedfellow. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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