lobbying

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Recent Examples of lobbying And the labs' latest lobbying bills reveal who is paying to write next year's rules. Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026 Meanwhile, Anthropic and its rival OpenAI are ramping up their lobbying spending. Alex Harring, CNBC, 22 July 2026 Meanwhile, García was accused of pressuring Negrón to appoint the wife of the president of Politank — a powerful lobbying and government relations firm that Domenech founded — to Puerto Rico’s Office of Permit Management. ABC News, 21 July 2026 And with billions of dollars in potential broadcast revenue and scholarship value at stake in the talks, the senators are stepping up their lobbying push to clinch the deal. Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 20 July 2026 As Los Angeles city officials deal with the fallout from last month’s Lineage warehouse fire, one powerful lobbying firm has been at the center of the efforts. Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2026 To accommodate its delegation for the May lobbying trip, the commission’s Intergovernmental Affairs office in February booked about 30 rooms at the Royal Sonesta on Capitol Hill for May 19 and May 20. Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 15 July 2026 The other nonprofit has been reporting its spending as scholarships that are also required to be disclosed under the lobbying law. Charlotte Observer, 15 July 2026 After years of lobbying, the 40% tax relief on movies of up to £15M ($20M) budget was hailed by the likes of Christopher Nolan, Ridley Scott and Barbara Broccoli when it was finally introduced in the spring of 2024. Max Goldbart, Deadline, 14 July 2026
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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
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
Noun
  • To achieve credibility and build external audit assurance quality, our agents use an advanced chain-of-thought prompting process, which breaks each complex problem into smaller reasoning steps, combined with deterministic guardrails.
    Gargi Ray, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
  • The Five Pillars Of Token Optimization Token optimization requires more than smart prompting.
    Sumeet Agrawal, Fortune, 20 July 2026
Noun
  • Jordyn was admitted without delay, and before receiving her epidural, Haley and Kelsy stayed close, offering steady support through hip pressure, gentle swaying and laughter.
    Christina Cardona, USA Today, 15 July 2026
  • During those exercises, the arresting officer wrote that Zenk showed multiple signs of impairment, including balance issues, swaying and difficulty following instructions.
    Deirdre Durkan, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026
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

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