How to Use politics in a Sentence

politics

noun
  • It’s not just politics these days for the long-time friends.
    Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Just not the politics ones because that’s a whole thing.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 17 July 2023
  • There doesn’t seem to be a place for me [in politics] right now.
    Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 29 May 2020
  • But then again, all of us in politics need somebody to watch over us.
    Justin L. MacK, Indianapolis Star, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Some call it the 'my way or the highway' approach to politics.
    CBS News, 8 Nov. 2019
  • Others have less of a track record of mixing it up in politics.
    Sam Dean, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2021
  • But, on both sides of the Atlantic, politics is in flux.
    John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Musk’s politics are, like the man himself, hard to pin down.
    Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 4 Apr. 2022
  • How to have the base politics of culture war without the costs of the Big Lie?
    Abdul El-Sayed, The New Republic, 3 June 2022
  • But even the way the campaign has been run so far has shown that things aren’t politics as usual.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Why meddle in politics this way and alienate half of the country?
    Jerry Bowyer, National Review, 5 May 2021
  • This dovetails with the rise of big money and dark money in politics.
    Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2022
  • Does this not prove that fault and debt cannot be resolved on the worldly field where politics plays out?
    Joshua Mitchell, National Review, 26 Oct. 2017
  • But the issue got caught up in a web of partisan politics.
    Praduman Jain, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
  • And for a long time, regardless of sort of the politics at the top, people were doing a lot of the same stuff.
    The Atlantic, 9 June 2020
  • But in politics, blunders must be hugged all the closer to one’s breast.
    Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 13 July 2018
  • But this was a moment that took place outside the horse race of electoral politics.
    Connor Sheets | Csheets@al.com, al, 2 June 2020
  • As for Klobuchar, politics wasn’t even on her radar at that point.
    Robin Marty, Cosmopolitan, 6 Sep. 2017
  • In politics, the best and the brightest Black folks quite often don’t run.
    Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2022
  • To the point where, like, honestly, of all the news taking place in the world, politics is not at the top of our list.
    Matthew Belloni, Popular Mechanics, 5 Sep. 2017
  • And putting politics and party aside is what we're supposed to do.
    USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2022
  • The handful of states with divided politics are up for grabs.
    Lindsay Whitehurst, Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2022
  • The politics of pluralism run, as Raskin likes to note, in his blood.
    Nathan Heller, Vogue, 4 Jan. 2022
  • If politics is about the moment, then Joe Biden is right in the moment.
    Christopher Keating, courant.com, 28 Aug. 2020
  • In a less-than-ideal world, no one should be shocked that politics is going on here.
    Logan Jenkins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 June 2018
  • Miranda gets that politics is a business of quid pro quo.
    Dana Schwartz, EW.com, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Our kids have not seen an example of mature politics in many years.
    Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Levy is less engaged with politics than Smith and much more present in her text than Cusk.
    BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2021
  • And, as such, we are connected to pain and injustice … and to politics.
    Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 4 Apr. 2021
  • The death-penalty remedy is one hint that there might be some politics going on here.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 6 Aug. 2020

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