pressure group

as in interest
a group of people with a common identifying interest that they seek to protect and promote observed that if publishers gave in to every pressure group, nothing would ever get published

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Recent Examples of pressure group In 1940, an anti-war and isolationist pressure group, America First Committee, was launched to oppose the U.S. entering World War II. Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024 In reality, revenue generated by these taxes disappears into the black hole of the general budget and goes to whatever pressure group has the most influence at city hall. Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2024 Lear produced many more shows; ran a liberal pressure group, People for the American Way; and, admirably, owned and exhibited an early printing of the Declaration of Independence. Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023 After months of discussion and debate among politicians, pundits, and pressure groups worldwide, a group of legislators was finally taking regulatory steps to address the potential dangers of artificial intelligence. Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Dec. 2023 See All Example Sentences for pressure group
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Noun
  • Paxton’s interest in Paul’s plight was bizarre, obsessive and so far beyond normal operations at the attorney general’s office that the agency’s top officials struggled to convey their concerns during the hourslong meeting with two FBI agents.
    Kimberly Ross, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Market bets on an interest rate cut from the Federal Reserve in September were unchanged shortly following the print, with CME's FedWatch tool suggesting a 90% probability of a quarter-percentage point cut and a 10% chance of a bigger half-point reduction.
    Jenni Reid,Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2025
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  • Yet financial interventions from powerful interest groups short-circuit the most basic channels of representative government.
    John J. Donohue, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
  • All this at a time when minority writers are also disproportionately the targets of censorship by Republican state houses and right-wing interest groups.
    Kevin Dickinson, Big Think, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Although each country that lowers its own ACMDs will benefit, ACMDs often are the fruit of special interest lobbying and thus are hard to dislodge.
    Alden Abbott, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • This is unsurprising given the makeup of the Legislature, with a Democratic supermajority backed by various special interests, especially public sector unions, eager to raid public coffers whenever possible.
    The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025

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“Pressure group.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pressure%20group. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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