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Recent Examples of party line
The bill passed largely on party lines in the House but stalled in the Senate and didn’t become law.
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Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2025
Reality is what the leader says, quite simply, so stop complaining and follow the party line.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 6 Aug. 2025
Members of the Derry City Council in Northern Ireland followed suit across party lines, approving a resolution urging Clinton to suspend his deportation.
—Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025
Arizona lawmakers, like most of their colleagues, have fallen along party lines on the issue.
—Helen Rummel, AZCentral.com, 1 Aug. 2025
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Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2025
Reality is what the leader says, quite simply, so stop complaining and follow the party line.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 6 Aug. 2025
Members of the Derry City Council in Northern Ireland followed suit across party lines, approving a resolution urging Clinton to suspend his deportation.
—Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025
Arizona lawmakers, like most of their colleagues, have fallen along party lines on the issue.
—Helen Rummel, AZCentral.com, 1 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for party line
conventional wisdom
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These numbers somewhat challenge conventional wisdom about digital transformation.—
Douglas B. Laney,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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The sentinels of conventional wisdom settled on the view that the Iraq invasion was one of the great own goals of American foreign policy, and that its beneficiary was Iran.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
2 Sep. 2025
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