as in movement
a series of activities undertaken to achieve a goal
an all-out campaign to bring a minor league baseball team to the city
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Recent Examples of campaign
But the petitions cleared their first hurdle this week when Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins allowed the campaign to start collecting signatures and crafted ballot language for the proposals.
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Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 20 Oct. 2025
But in 1895, a ruthless public smear campaign hinging on Wilde’s queerness led to the author’s imprisonment, outing, and eventual exile.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
Preseason is over and the 2024-25 NBA campaign is upon us.
—Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 20 Oct. 2025
Beyoncé’s team told Rolling Stone that the musician did not give the campaign permission to use the Lemonade track and threatened to send a cease-and-desist letter.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2025
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Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 20 Oct. 2025
But in 1895, a ruthless public smear campaign hinging on Wilde’s queerness led to the author’s imprisonment, outing, and eventual exile.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
Preseason is over and the 2024-25 NBA campaign is upon us.
—Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 20 Oct. 2025
Beyoncé’s team told Rolling Stone that the musician did not give the campaign permission to use the Lemonade track and threatened to send a cease-and-desist letter.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for campaign
Noun
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The researchers can’t conclude, based on observing study participants, that movement definitively caused their better health outcomes.—
Veronique Greenwood,
Time,
21 Oct. 2025
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The common rule in KC stepping is that the man leads his partner in the dance — queuing the spins, turns and overall flow of movement.—
Alexa Stone
Updated October 21,
Kansas City Star,
21 Oct. 2025
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His secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, advocates for a new Christian crusade, literally.—
James Druckman,
Mercury News,
17 Oct. 2025
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Pacino plays a powerful mob boss whose empire collides with Father Joe’s crusade.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
13 Oct. 2025
Noun
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That started with the volleyball spike of a 7-foot-1 player’s hook shot and continued to the tallest player in the league calmly breaking into a left-handed push dribble, coming under control and then hitting a complex six-dribble sequence and stepback 3-pointer plus the foul.—
John Hollinger,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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Vernengo said the reclassification of drug dealers as terrorists has led many in the region to assume that there is a push for a possible invasion of Venezuela, whose neighbors have no choice but to have a relationship with the United States.—
Brendan Cole,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Oct. 2025
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“Campaign.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/campaign. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.
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