logrolling

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Recent Examples of logrolling This Stasi-worthy logrolling is how the media propagandize for the propagandist. Armond White, National Review, 25 Oct. 2023 Our logrolling, our stumps and their politics, our fisheries, our Negroes and Indians, our boasts and our repudiations, the wrath of rogues and the pusillanimity of honest men, the northern trade, the southern planting, the western clearing, Oregon, and Texas, are yet unsung. Mark Edmundson, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022 Petitioners shouldn’t bundle unrelated issues together, a practice derisively known as logrolling. BostonGlobe.com, 26 Nov. 2019 Incarnate Word sophomore Ameer King hates the Cardinals’ logrolling drill. Greg Luca, ExpressNews.com, 21 Aug. 2019 This is political logrolling disguised as public necessity. The Editorial Board, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2019 Even with the stoutest of disclosures, this form of op-edding would smack of legal logrolling. Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 27 June 2018 But hey, everybody hates taxes, and why should this industry be cut out of the logrolling big barbecue of a bill that is largely based on the idea that tax cuts pay for themselves? Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 21 Dec. 2017 In many democracies, of course, logrolling is neither rare nor necessarily bad. Eduardo Mello, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for logrolling
Noun
  • The exchange that dominates the crypto market, Coinbase, generated almost 40 times more revenue than Gemini did in the third quarter.
    Carlos Garcia, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Today, thousands of Venezuelans – from corporate bankers to retirees – regularly purchase US dollars on Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange.
    Stefano Pozzebon, CNN Money, 11 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Again leading bargaining for the union will be Ellen Stutzman, the WGA West executive director who helmed the talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers amid a 148-day strike in 2023.
    Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The order applies to federal employees in programs or offices where the plaintiff unions have members or bargaining units.
    The NPR Network, NPR, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The decision effectively ends months of back-and-forth accusations involving Lively, her husband, Ryan Reynolds, and The New York Times.
    Bryan West, Nashville Tennessean, 7 Nov. 2025
  • During a pre-pageant event, pageant director Nawat Itsaragrisil publicly chastised Miss Mexico Fátima Bosch, leading to a tense back-and-forth exchange that resulted in several contestants walking out in support of Bosch.
    Allison DeGrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • At the same time, Western sanctions are squeezing Russia, forcing a return to 1990s-style barter as firms trade wheat and flax for Chinese cars and building materials.
    David Kirichenko, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • She was known to barter paintings for medical bills, home repairs and tobacco.
    Patrick Sauer, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • Debt-for-health swaps, social impact bonds, insurance schemes and sin taxes can all help mobilize both domestic and international financing at the intersection of climate and health.
    Vanessa Kerry, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Hoss tells Variety‘s Awards Circuit Podcast of DaCosta’s decision to gender-swap the male character Eilert Lövborg into Eileen.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Several pardons and commutations issued by former President Joe Biden sparked controversy.
    David Mark, The Washington Examiner, 31 Oct. 2025
  • More than 13,000 people have applied for federal clemency since 2021, yet only a few hundred have received pardons or commutations.
    Khalil Cumberbatch, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Sewer Rats El Camello is with me in the back of the truck beneath the canopy.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Keep a distance from high profile vehicles such as trucks, buses and vehicles towing trailers.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The 36-year-old's contributions to the Dodgers becoming baseball's first back-to-back champions in a quarter-century likely won't be forgotten for a long time, and perhaps during contract negotiations, will be a present reminder.
    Gabe Smallson, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Nov. 2025
  • For now, those negotiations remain uncertain.
    Nik Popli, Time, 11 Nov. 2025

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“Logrolling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/logrolling. Accessed 19 Nov. 2025.

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