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lobbying

noun

as in influencing

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Recent Examples of lobbying Kyl stayed for less than four months before rejoining lobbying firm Covington and Burling. — Jacques Billeaud The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 18 Sep. 2026 AmCham Myanmar's allegations against Castillo center around his lobbying effort aimed at generating interest in doing business with the restive Southeast Asian nation. — ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026 Fanning out to statehouses for AI lobbying is often an easier lift than getting Congress to do much of anything. — Ashley Gold, semafor.com, 15 Sep. 2026 And despite this finding, which has coexisted for decades, Congress rarely acts, something usually blamed on lobbying outspending a diffuse majority. — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2026 Nonprofit lobbying group Americans for Responsible Innovation will launch a state-level advocacy initiative to promote responsible artificial intelligence policy. — Sofia Williams, Sacbee.com, 11 Sep. 2026 They specifically can’t be used for political lobbying to influence legislation. — Kenny Torrella, Vox, 9 Sep. 2026 That typically comes via an analysis from the Congressional Budget Office, so expect to see a lobbying push to outline how the incentive will save or restore jobs. — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2026 The lobbying push is mounting as the European Commission prepares to review the Audiovisual Media Services Directive which sets guidelines for streamers’ investment in European content. — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 8 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lobbying
  1. influencing
  2. pressuring
  3. prompting
  4. swaying
  5. brainwashing
Noun
  • Suleiman Sami’s business, S Sami Services LLC, provides transportation services, event ticket sales and social media influencing.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 2 Sep. 2026
  • When students graduate, they'll be prepared for roles in content strategy, digital influencing, brand development, social media management and audience engagement across industries.
    — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of influencing
Noun
  • The first drills Monday focused on rebounding, the next half-dozen on various aspects of their pressuring, helping, swarming, trapping defense.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 July 2026
  • 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
Definition of pressuring
Noun
  • Bell told me about an instance when a friend stayed over, cleaned out her garbage disposal, and ordered her new sponges, all without any prompting.
    — Brooke Knappenberger, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2026
  • An agentic system pursues a goal across multiple steps—retrieving data, calling APIs, applying business rules, making decisions and handing off exceptions—with limited human prompting along the way.
    — Tammy Hawes, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of prompting
Noun
  • Gerber was just 18 at the time, and appeared in the cover swaying and singing with Cara Delevingne and Ashley Benson.
    — Leigh Blickley, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Aug. 2026
  • To me, what emerges from this swaying feels more natural than simply forging ahead with a predetermined, easily understood logic.
    — Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of swaying
Noun
  • Backstabbing, scheming, secret children showing up to cause trouble, brainwashing, amnesia, terrorist massacres at weddings, and shoulder pads… so, so many shoulder pads.
    — Maggie Fremont, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Aug. 2026
  • 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
Definition of brainwashing

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“Lobbying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lobbying. Accessed 24 Sep. 2026.

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