How to Use partisanship in a Sentence

partisanship

noun
  • 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
  • Warmed by the fires of partisanship or consumed by the bursting of flames?
    — Robert A. Strong, The Conversation, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Another break from the past was in terms of straight-ahead partisanship.
    — Gary Langer, ABC News, 6 Nov. 2024
  • And that's due to the partisanship that is driving both parties.
    — Dan Nowicki, The Arizona Republic, 7 May 2023
  • But the cost, in dollars and partisanship, is a warning, too.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2025
  • And when the failure drags on long enough, extreme partisanship rushes in to fill it.
    — Melissa Derosa, New York Daily News, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The judge said the plaintiffs hadn't shown their claims of partisanship are likely to succeed.
    — ABC News, 27 May 2026
  • The judge said the plaintiffs hadn't shown their claims of partisanship are likely to succeed.
    — ABC News, 26 May 2026
  • The judge said the plaintiffs hadn’t shown their claims of partisanship are likely to succeed.
    — David A. Lieb, Chicago Tribune, 29 May 2026
  • So why not outlaw parties and rein in the dangers of partisanship?
    — Robert A. Strong, The Conversation, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The partisanship around global warming has eased some in recent years.
    — Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2024
  • The dairy product has had a niche following that transcends partisanship for decades.
    — Natalie Daher, Axios, 20 Nov. 2024
  • More progress, less partisanship.
    — Hayleigh Colombo, IndyStar, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Voters are not asking for more partisanship.
    — Mona Darwish, Oc Register, 3 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • That partisanship would play an important role in shaping Fries’s fate.
    — Joseph Thorndike, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Its mission is not partisanship, but results.
    — Kevin Stitt, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Trump takes shutdown politics to new levels of pain and partisanship.
    — Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 2 Oct. 2025
  • From start to finish, ugly hyper-partisanship was on full display.
    — Bobby Zirkin, Baltimore Sun, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Pictures and video of the moment captured the overt display of partisanship in a contest for the state’s highest court.
    — Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 6 Apr. 2025
  • By itself, the topic could be framed as a national concern above partisanship.
    — Bill Barrow, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • The House’s action was riven with partisanship.
    — Kevin R. Kosar, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Perhaps the weirdest aspect of 2022 was the way that partisanship played out.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Like many of the other findings, the poll found public perception of an acetaminophen link to autism is closely tied to partisanship.
    — Nathaniel Weixel, The Hill, 9 Oct. 2025

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