How to Use partisanship in a Sentence

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  • Still, the partisanship gap has rarely been this acute, Hsu said.
    — Rob Wile, NBC News, 14 July 2023
  • This new earnest partisanship is, for the most part, going over well.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Feb. 2023
  • And that's due to the partisanship that is driving both parties.
    — Dan Nowicki, The Arizona Republic, 7 May 2023
  • Perhaps the weirdest aspect of 2022 was the way that partisanship played out.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 9 Feb. 2023
  • But the heart of the show is an off-the-cuff panel discussion that aims to cut through the bull— and predictable partisanship, and that will continue.
    — Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Schrader, Lenkiewicz, and Pitt pushed feminist partisanship to the point of no-fun.
    — Armond White, National Review, 25 Jan. 2023
  • By 2012, when the new primary rules took effect, partisanship was on the rise.
    — John Myers, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2022
  • Extreme partisanship, which took hold long before Trump took control of the GOP, is part of the answer.
    — Paul Krugman, The Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Furthermore, the lack of partisanship over the league goes back more than a decade, when the partisan wars were less intense.
    — Dante Chinni, NBC News, 12 Feb. 2023
  • But much, maybe most, of this gap reflects partisanship.
    — Paul Krugman, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2024
  • But the club's long tradition is to avoid partisanship.
    — Deirdre Walsh, NPR, 8 May 2024
  • What comes across clearest is the din itself, a crescendo of partisanship in a realm that might’ve yielded common ground.
    — Eric Boodman, STAT, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Those efforts to steer clear of partisanship were vital in a county where Donald Trump crushed Joe Biden by 20 points.
    — Kyle Paoletta, The New Republic, 30 Oct. 2023
  • But, look, partisanship is just -- is rampant right now.
    — ABC News, 12 Dec. 2021
  • With the sharpening partisanship in recent years and, for now, a speaker-less House, prospects for sweeping action seem next to none.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The split between Shiite and Sunni started as partisanship over who should succeed the Prophet.
    — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • In the truest essence, ethic probes, when free of partisanship, can be a necessary tool to ensure good, fair governance.
    — Sam Kmack, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2024
  • Groups Focusing on the two-way Biden-Trump race, results show the pull of partisanship and ideology.
    — Gary Langer, ABC News, 5 May 2024
  • That finding from a new Economist/YouGov poll highlights how deeply partisanship still shapes views of Jan. 6.
    — David Lautersenior Editor, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2023
  • But Murray said partisanship may have been the larger story of Election Night.
    — Isabelle Schmeler, NBC News, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The vote to depose the House Speaker was a long time coming, and both parties have played a role in putting partisanship above institutional norms.
    — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 10 Oct. 2023
  • The poll found that the sentiment is heavily influenced by partisanship, with the uptick being led by Democrats.
    — Alicia Wallace, CNN, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Here, too, partisanship has shaped the response: Among Republicans, 82% called the economy bad; among Democrats, about half that many did.
    — David Lautersenior Editor, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2023
  • The point of the lawfare siege, which is the target of Trump’s constant ire and is thus scoffed at by his fans as ineffective partisanship, was to get Trump nominated.
    — Brittany Bernstein, National Review, 17 Jan. 2024
  • That partisanship doesn’t erode Freeman’s confidence in the Court.
    — Caroline Curran, ABC News, 8 July 2023
  • Even Willett has been critical of the harsh tone of some judicial opinions and partisanship.
    — Ann E. Marimow, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Jan. 2023
  • But given the intensifying partisanship on Capitol Hill and with control of the Senate at stake, the old rules do not apply.
    — Carl Hulse, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The Pew Research Center's findings differ based on age and partisanship.
    — NBC News, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Moving the elections to the same ticket would increase partisanship in the city’s nonpartisan races, Henry said.
    — Everton Bailey Jr., Dallas News, 10 May 2023
  • Perhaps because the stakes are so constrained — and because so much of the response to candidates is baked into America’s fervent partisanship — these contests tend not to have much of an effect on the state of the race.
    — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 28 June 2024

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