as in neutral
relating to or involving members of two political parties
a bipartisan effort The bill has bipartisan support.
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Recent Examples of bipartisan
Congress eventually passed a bipartisan resolution in 1973 urging an international treaty to prohibit the use of weather modification as a weapon of war.
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Pamela McElwee, The Conversation, 28 Apr. 2025
But this debate can’t be had and these bipartisan policies achieved if the climate activists simply discount the views on ideological grounds of these and their peer CEOs.
—Robert G. Eccles, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
Gone is talk of promoting democracy, or even free markets—bedrocks of bipartisan foreign policy since World War II.
—Mohammed Soliman, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Apr. 2025
In March, the White House also dismissed two Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission, which historically has operated as an independent, bipartisan commission.
—Alain Sherter, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2025
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Pamela McElwee, The Conversation, 28 Apr. 2025
But this debate can’t be had and these bipartisan policies achieved if the climate activists simply discount the views on ideological grounds of these and their peer CEOs.
—Robert G. Eccles, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
Gone is talk of promoting democracy, or even free markets—bedrocks of bipartisan foreign policy since World War II.
—Mohammed Soliman, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Apr. 2025
In March, the White House also dismissed two Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission, which historically has operated as an independent, bipartisan commission.
—Alain Sherter, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bipartisan
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For one, the upstart Wings and dynastic Las Vegas Aces go to work at a particularly cool neutral site — Purcell Pavilion, home of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, cathedral to Muffet McGraw’s national championship program.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
3 May 2025
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There were about 140,000 Jews in the Netherlands, a neutral country, when the Germans arrived in 1940.—
Brian T. Allen,
National Review,
3 May 2025
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The question of who controls a small independent media outlet has roiled Los Angeles’ left for more than a year.—
Matt Hamilton,
Los Angeles Times,
3 May 2025
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Why is shopping at local, independent bookstores important?—
American Booksellers Association,
USA Today,
3 May 2025
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Even if a president imposed 50% tariffs on all goods imported into the U.S. — or twice the current rate under Mr. Trump — the income generated would represent less than 40% of what income taxes bring in, according to the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a nonpartisan research firm.—
Alain Sherter,
CBS News,
1 May 2025
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The nation’s humanities councils were established by Congress in 1971 as nonpartisan, 501(c)3 nonprofit organizations.—
Michael T. Nietzel,
Forbes.com,
30 Apr. 2025
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“Bipartisan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bipartisan. Accessed 14 May. 2025.
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