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Recent Examples of lobbying
Their position is marked as neutral on the state's lobbying website.
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Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 7 Oct. 2025
Critics, including the nation’s leading lobbying group for college presidents, slammed the compact as government overreach into academia.
—Joey Garrison, USA Today, 2 Oct. 2025
However, this time, their lobbying didn’t make a difference.
—David O'Brien, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
Merlo set up meetings with Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill, contacted State Department officials, and spoke to reporters at The New York Times, Fox News and other outlets, lobbying records show.
—T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 30 Sep. 2025
But lobbying reports filed with the City Clerk’s Office show that the hotel, housing and marina developers were meeting privately with city officials as early as January.
—Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
Tonight’s conversation canvassed Tarantino’s career from his days watching movies in Westchester, CA to Harvey Keitel throwing his support behind Reservoir Dogs, to Bruce Willis’ lobbying for the role of Vinny Vega.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 28 Sep. 2025
Applegreen, an Irish company at the center of a now-defunct deal to redevelop travel plazas along state highways, shelled out tens of thousands of dollars between 2024 and 2025 to a powerful Beacon Hill lobbying shop, according to a state database last updated June 30.
—Chris Van Buskirk, Boston Herald, 28 Sep. 2025
The feuding gambling factions each spent millions on lobbying and on lawmakers’ campaigns.
—Calmatters, Oc Register, 24 Sep. 2025
Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 7 Oct. 2025
Critics, including the nation’s leading lobbying group for college presidents, slammed the compact as government overreach into academia.
—Joey Garrison, USA Today, 2 Oct. 2025
However, this time, their lobbying didn’t make a difference.
—David O'Brien, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
Merlo set up meetings with Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill, contacted State Department officials, and spoke to reporters at The New York Times, Fox News and other outlets, lobbying records show.
—T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 30 Sep. 2025
But lobbying reports filed with the City Clerk’s Office show that the hotel, housing and marina developers were meeting privately with city officials as early as January.
—Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
Tonight’s conversation canvassed Tarantino’s career from his days watching movies in Westchester, CA to Harvey Keitel throwing his support behind Reservoir Dogs, to Bruce Willis’ lobbying for the role of Vinny Vega.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 28 Sep. 2025
Applegreen, an Irish company at the center of a now-defunct deal to redevelop travel plazas along state highways, shelled out tens of thousands of dollars between 2024 and 2025 to a powerful Beacon Hill lobbying shop, according to a state database last updated June 30.
—Chris Van Buskirk, Boston Herald, 28 Sep. 2025
The feuding gambling factions each spent millions on lobbying and on lawmakers’ campaigns.
—Calmatters, Oc Register, 24 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lobbying
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Negotiation and influencing skills are critical capabilities that the candidates can highlight as a testament to their ability to navigate the organizational dynamics, maneuver tricky situations and secure buy-in from detractors, if any.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
20 Aug. 2025
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The pandemic also pushed Afi Maita to launch her own business, both in fashion styling and influencing.—
Corina Vanek,
AZCentral.com,
31 July 2025
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Coercion and pressuring cannot solve problems.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Sep. 2025
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There are similarities between the standoff playing out between the White House and the Fed, and President Richard Nixon’s pressuring of the central bank in the 1970s, according to Nomura.—
Alex Harring,
CNBC,
27 Aug. 2025
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Extracting valuable hypotheses requires careful prompting, iterative feedback, and a willingness to engage in a kind of dialogue with the AI, notes Swanson.—
Elie Dolgin,
IEEE Spectrum,
25 Sep. 2025
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By generating comprehensive solutions with minimal prompting, ChatGPT-5 removes the need for these mental rehearsals, creating a skill gap between competence and performance.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
10 Aug. 2025
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Could her body handle the hip-swaying, leg-kicking, and straight-up flying through the air?—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
30 Sep. 2025
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Yet somehow, in a medium of heavy copper, Fischl captures the lithe, swaying, physical vitality of Ashe, as well as the high-mindedness of the man who was so committed to social causes.—
Sally Jenkins,
The Atlantic,
30 Aug. 2025
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And for a moment, sometime in the 1970s and early 1980s, this sense of possibility wasn’t just cultural brainwashing.—
Alissa Quart,
Time,
30 Aug. 2025
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Conspiracies and brainwashing In Argentina, there was the troubling disappearance of five-year-old Loan Peña in Corrientes province.—
Agustino Fontevecchia,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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“Lobbying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lobbying. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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