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
  • In exchange, the United States lowered some of its tariffs.
    Mira Rapp-Hooper, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
  • In the third quarter, revenue decreased by 4 percent at constant exchange also due to slow tourism.
    Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 28 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The bargaining unit would include workers across production, food service, box office and door staff at all four venues.
    Katie Campione, Deadline, 24 Oct. 2025
  • More recently, Justice Brian Hagedorn stepped away from a case regarding the Act 10 public bargaining law, while Justice Janet Protasiewicz rejected calls to recuse from the case.
    Laura Schulte, jsonline.com, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Wood, in good fun, continued the back-and-forth during an ESPN Radio interview with D-Lo and KC and provided his thoughts on Hauck’s responses.
    Marcus Smith, Sacbee.com, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The government has been shutdown since October 1, and Republicans and Democrats have been in a stalemate, trading blame back-and-forth over who caused the shutdown and seeking to garner support for resolutions to re-open the government.
    Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 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
  • Bessent, who specialized in foreign exchange in a decades-long hedge fund career, organized a $20 billion foreign-exchange swap with Argentina’s central bank earlier this month — an unusual structure that bypassed the US Federal Reserve, which is typically the lead party in such arrangements.
    Daniel Flatley, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Still, his government maintains some Chinese financial ties, including a standing currency swap with the People’s Bank of China, showing that pragmatism may temper ideology.
    Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The President, not anonymous sources, is the final decider on pardons and commutations.
    Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The president has the right under the Constitution for pardon and commutation, of course.
    ABC News, ABC News, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Following a fire at the Novelis aluminum plant in New York, Ford is looking to beef up its truck production capacity at the Kentucky Truck Plant.
    Ray Padilla, Louisville Courier Journal, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Oscar Vazquez said his brother, 32-year-old Martin Briones-Vazquez, was the driver of the truck, according to ABC affiliate WFAA-TV.
    Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • This level of visibility couldn’t have come at a better time for a group of players in the midst of contentious negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA).
    Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The seven states dependent on the river’s dwindling flows have been locked in tense negotiations over this for years.
    Joan Meiners, AZCentral.com, 27 Oct. 2025

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“Logrolling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/logrolling. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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