campaigns

Definition of campaignsnext
plural of campaign
as in movements
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 campaigns Racial profiling is virtually a stated part of the department’s strategy, and ad campaigns have openly espoused white-nationalist rhetoric and talking points. Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2026 LaFayette was one of a delegation of Nashville students who in 1960 had helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which organized desegregation and voting rights campaigns across the South. CBS News, 6 Mar. 2026 Both remain in the conversation, but not at the level their campaigns may have hoped. Clayton Davis, Variety, 6 Mar. 2026 American air campaigns in the former Yugoslavia and in Libya brought down regimes without the involvement of American ground forces. Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2026 No corner of entertainment is safe from the White House using its IP on its social media or campaigns. Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2026 Muslim groups issue know-your-rights guidance while political campaigns intensify anti-Muslim messaging during election season. Luis Andres Henao, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026 The Republican Senate campaigns did not clarify whether the candidates were invited to the event, and the White House did not comment on invitations or attendees. Emily Chang, ABC News, 27 Feb. 2026 This year, Miami Beach and the Miami Beach Redevelopment Agency are spending $390,000 on public relations campaigns aimed at stimulating real estate development and resettlement. Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for campaigns
Noun
  • Every festival has had to think about questions being pushed over the last few years, with horrible wars going on in in Ukraine and in Gaza and elsewhere, and a lot of political movements building up around them, and with a lot of political pressure on cultural events, including film festivals.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 9 Mar. 2026
  • None could tame its political furies; its covert operations, which killed more than a thousand Americans in Lebanon, Iraq, and Afghanistan; or its expansion, through the creation of like-minded extremist movements, across the Middle East.
    Robin Wright, New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Jackson led a lifetime of crusades in the United States and abroad, advocating for the poor and underrepresented on issues from voting rights and job opportunities to education and health care.
    Sophia Tareen, Fortune, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The question the First Amendment keeps asking, across wars and panics and moral crusades, is whether a democracy can tolerate the possibility of persuasion.
    Stephanie A, The Conversation, 22 Jan. 2026

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“Campaigns.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/campaigns. Accessed 11 Mar. 2026.

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