How to Use big government in a Sentence

big government

noun
  • This is the nanny state at its worst; this is big government at its worst.
    — Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 May 2025
  • To them, the only thing worse than big government is big woke government.
    — Farah Stockman, The Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2025
  • In the last decade, super-low rates and big government spending brought abundance.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2023
  • What everybody wanted was a voice in the matter and a vote, and that to me is not big government.
    — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Progressives don't want to hear it, but the era of big government is probably over again.
    — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 2 Feb. 2022
  • If local and state governments can’t make the rent go down, then the biggest government of them all might need to step in.
    — Noah Smith, Twin Cities, 16 June 2019
  • Where big business or big labor team up with big government, freedom is sure to come under attack.
    — Dominic Pino, National Review, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Railing against big government, all the rage in 2010, is now firmly out of style.
    — Grayson Quay, The Week, 30 Jan. 2022
  • Whether such an attitude holds, however, could be a key signal of whether big government is back to stay.
    — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Burton was a champion of big government in every sense.
    — John Seiler, Oc Register, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Locals say Uniontown is a place where many people distrust big government and are wary of strangers.
    — al, 16 Mar. 2021
  • The real clash with liberals is not over how big government should be, but over what the state should be empowered to do.
    — Allan J. Lichtman, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The left tends to push control by central authority and big government.
    — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 30 Jan. 2022
  • Project 2025 threw that out, embracing right-wing big government.
    — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Biden's 100-day gamble on big government leaves little room for failures.
    — Alex Connor, USA TODAY, 2 May 2021
  • And in fact, many of the features of big government (19th-century style) fell away before long.
    — Andrew Ferguson, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2020
  • Konczal too blithely assumes the neoliberal era has met its end and a new dawn of big government is emerging.
    — Stephen Eide, National Review, 15 Jan. 2021
  • The larger lesson is that sooner or later the middle class always gets the bill for bigger government.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 10 Sep. 2018
  • Powell has always been a fixer, with a deft hand, who has helped accommodate the needs of big money and big government.
    — Christopher Leonard, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2021
  • Upending our lives, taking on huge costs, to deal with this issue has been a favorite of those who like to politicize our lives with big government.
    — Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2026
  • In America, rejecting the false promise of big government could do the same.
    — Jon Fleischman, Oc Register, 12 Apr. 2025
  • Tax enforcement isn’t big government.
    — Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2026
  • This dislike of the idea of big government is another common rationale for shrinking the state.
    — Lane Kenworthy, Foreign Affairs, 14 June 2018
  • For Democrats, the concept is a wager on big government at a time when faith in democratic governance is at a low ebb.
    — Jonathan Weisman, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Those on the left see rising costs as an opportunity to advance their big government agenda.
    — Star Parker, Boston Herald, 2 May 2026
  • What was once largely the domain of big government is now increasingly the realm of Big Tech.
    — New York Times, 21 July 2021
  • Did big government deliver on the noble intention of big solutions in terms of the creation of new jobs?
    — Rajshree Agarwal, Forbes, 5 May 2021
  • The Fed has emerged as the biggest agent of big government, a sort of economics superministry.
    — Sebastian Mallaby, Foreign Affairs, 29 May 2020
  • Twenty years ago a Democratic president declared that the era of big government was over.
    — The Economist, 12 July 2018
  • The biggest threat to competition and consumers in our time is the collusion of big business and big government.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2021

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