lobbying

noun

as in influencing

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Recent Examples of lobbying Advertisement Anthropic has argued since February that no single firm can solve this—hence its lobbying for a coordinated front of industry, cloud providers, and government. — Harry Booth, Time, 7 July 2026 Washington’s most powerful lobbying firms rushed to sever ties with Alibaba and other Chinese tech giants after a new law targeting entities allegedly aiding China’s military took effect last week, Bloomberg News previously reported. — Kate O'Keeffe, Fortune, 5 July 2026 The Boulis murder led to a close federal examination of the SunCruz deal, exposing the fraud and ending the lobbying career of Abramoff. — Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel, 5 July 2026 Critics say the test rewards the smallest slice of the problem while ignoring Scope 3, the 80% to 95% of a producer's emissions that come from burning its fuel, and note the criteria echo the oil industry's own lobbying. — Ingmar Rentzhog, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026 African football is stronger thanks to Morocco successful lobbying of FIFA to change its eligibility rules. — Carl Anka, New York Times, 4 July 2026 Rodney Barreto, the chair of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and whose lobbying firm is active in Miami-Dade politics, was at the center of the pre-Alcatraz talks about the property. — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 3 July 2026 The increase, which comes after intense lobbying from local governments, is set to hit coffers in September — faster than previous rounds. — Theresa Clift, Sacbee.com, 2 July 2026 Bankrolling a network of PACs hasn’t slowed existing lobbying efforts from DraftKings and FanDuel, which are on pace to increase their annual spending there. — Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 30 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lobbying
  1. influencing
  2. pressuring
  3. prompting
  4. swaying
  5. brainwashing
Noun
  • Nicolas Matthew Scelfo of Brooklyn, New York, faces up to 10 years in prison after being charged with influencing, impeding, and retaliating against a federal officer by threat.
    — Anna Giaritelli, The Washington Examiner, 10 June 2026
  • Seven states have now passed legislation to regulate family influencing, but these laws mostly just ensure that parents set aside a percentage of earnings to compensate their children.
    — Kristen Martin, The Atlantic, 13 May 2026
Definition of influencing
Noun
  • As the two wander around the museum—one pressuring, the other deflecting—the novel portrays their professed enmity as underscored by the force of attraction, even of love.
    — Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Coercion and pressuring cannot solve problems.
    — Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
Definition of pressuring
Noun
  • One of its executives, Anderson, defined agentic treasury as a control system for the movement of money, software that does not merely advise a treasurer but acts, moving cash between accounts, settling invoices, hedging a currency exposure, all with little human prompting.
    — Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • The agent can run programs and complete requests without constant prompting.
    — Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 3 June 2026
Definition of prompting
Noun
  • Residents described evacuating swaying buildings and seeing entire walls collapse.
    — Kaylah Jackson, NBC news, 25 June 2026
  • People evacuated swaying buildings and homes in the capital, Caracas.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 June 2026
Definition of swaying
Noun
  • Advertisement Hank then explains why the mainframe of the entire brainwashing system was routed through the head of Representative Welch (Martha Kelly).
    — Barry Levitt, Time, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Shakespeare put all his understanding of human nature into Iago’s brainwashing master class.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2026
Definition of brainwashing

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