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 House Oversight Committee’s first hearing on the Minnesota fraud scandal was complete with lawmakers pointing fingers and exchanging barbs in heated exchanges.
    Lauren Green, The Washington Examiner, 8 Jan. 2026
  • His son looks just as focused, especially after the two exchange words.
    Mirin Fader, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • But such changes have always been more easily said than done because any change to the schedule — especially the addition of an NBA Cup-style in-season tournament — changes the logistics, bargaining, and tradition of baseball itself.
    Andy McCullough, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2026
  • The unions and the AMPTP declined to comment on the bargaining dates.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 9 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The back-and-forth got a massive laugh from the audience.
    Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 24 Jan. 2026
  • The result is an invisible back-and-forth where Copilot keeps working for the attacker using your session.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 24 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The same later deadline applies to Form 1099-B (broker and barter exchange transactions) and Form 1099-S (proceeds from real estate transactions).
    Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Cuba’s complicated barter system with Venezuela—exchanging oil for thousands of Cuban doctors, teachers, sports trainers, technical advisers, and intelligence operatives—has endured.
    Vivian Salama, The Atlantic, 11 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Verification firms reported a 10-fold jump in deepfakes between 2022 and 2023, and face-swap attacks surged by more than 700 percent in just six months.
    Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2026
  • The Negroni Meets Today’s Aperitivo Moment The swap between the negroni and old fashioned makes sense given aperitivo is having a moment stateside.
    Jillian Dara, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The White House doesn’t comment on potential clemency requests, but the president is the ultimate decider on pardons and commutations.
    Jacqueline Munis, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The White House does not comment on clemency requests, and the final decision on any pardons or commutations rests with the president, a White House official told CNN.
    Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 21 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Keep a distance from high profile vehicles such as trucks, buses and vehicles towing trailers.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 10 Jan. 2026
  • The truck's condition was the result of years of mishaps that Riles says are too numerous to recount.
    CBS News, CBS News, 10 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Murphy and Padilla, along with a small group of Democratic senators, have spent the past two days calling colleagues to whip opposition to the DHS funding bill, according to a source familiar with the negotiations.
    Patrick Maguire, CBS News, 25 Jan. 2026
  • The film’s opening stretch whizzes along as Charli — a natural, engaging actor — is dragged from one banal, vaguely embarrassing meeting or negotiation to another, sketchy vignettes usually punctuated at their close by Charli putting on her dark sunglasses and retreating back inward.
    Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 24 Jan. 2026

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“Logrolling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/logrolling. Accessed 26 Jan. 2026.

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