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
Nearly 72% of censorship attempts in 2024 were initiated by pressure groups and decision makers who have been swayed by them.
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Jennifer Borresen, USA Today, 5 Oct. 2025
Inside, the report notes that 72% of book challenges come either from pressure groups and officials who have been swayed by them.
—Peter Greene, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
Sheen has long called for tighter regulation of the credit system in the UK, founding pressure group the End High Cost Credit Alliance in 2017.
—Issy Ronald, CNN, 10 Mar. 2025
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
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Jennifer Borresen, USA Today, 5 Oct. 2025
Inside, the report notes that 72% of book challenges come either from pressure groups and officials who have been swayed by them.
—Peter Greene, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
Sheen has long called for tighter regulation of the credit system in the UK, founding pressure group the End High Cost Credit Alliance in 2017.
—Issy Ronald, CNN, 10 Mar. 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pressure group
Noun
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That critique of American foreign policy – that US high-mindedness and democratic idealism conceal naked corporate interests – persisted through the Cold War and into the 21st Century.—
Nathan Hodge,
CNN Money,
10 Jan. 2026
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Health care, housing, and education would be built to be affordable, driven by real results from the bottom up--not by party interests trickling down.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
10 Jan. 2026
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At the regulation’s first hearing in November, more than three dozen public interest groups opposed the rules, while the insurance industry supported the rules.—
Pat Maio,
Daily News,
8 Jan. 2026
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Otherwise politicians and interest groups will continue to demand tax increases as tax dollars disappear into pockets that may include their own.—
Susan Shelley,
Oc Register,
7 Jan. 2026
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After watching the state’s once nation-leading public records system buckle under political pressure, special interests, stonewalling and outright abuse, a bipartisan group of lawmakers has finally had enough.—
Bobby Block,
Sun Sentinel,
13 Jan. 2026
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And many of the costs can be traced back to labor union special interests.—
LyLena D. Estabine,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Jan. 2026
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“Pressure group.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pressure%20group. Accessed 19 Jan. 2026.
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