How to Use wedge issue in a Sentence

wedge issue

noun
  • Hungary may be a bellwether of whether making gay rights a wedge issue pays off.
    — Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Instead, the term seems to be used by politicians to frame a cultural wedge issue.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2021
  • But Moulton, who is 46, is going to use age as a wedge issue.
    — Joe Dwinell, Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
  • From the outset of the short campaign, Trudeau has used vaccine mandates as a wedge issue.
    — Lila MacLellan, Quartz, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Both parties use immigration as a wedge issue to rally their base.
    — Lomi Kriel, Houston Chronicle, 26 Feb. 2018
  • Crime and public safety, perhaps more than anything else, are the wedge issue of all wedge issues in this race.
    — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2022
  • Trans children are victims of a culture war that has forced them into the role of wedge issue to get ring-wingers elected.
    — Allison Hope, CNN, 30 June 2022
  • How did trans people become a wedge issue in the 2024 election?
    — Jay Michaelson, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2024
  • One national area that has become a wedge issue in the district is Israel.
    — cleveland, 24 July 2021
  • Trump has sought to use those facts as a wedge issue in manufacturing hubs like Michigan.
    — Tom Benning, Dallas News, 23 Sep. 2020
  • The war in Ukraine is already a wedge issue within the European far right.
    — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
  • Even the current attempts by Fox News to make soccer a wedge issue feel half-hearted.
    — Adam Elder, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Cordray will have to reassure the base on his past actions on guns, which have become a wedge issue in the primary.
    — Seth A. Richardson, cleveland.com, 11 June 2017
  • With no deal in sight, immigration has become more of a political wedge issue for years.
    — Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 13 Jan. 2023
  • My sexuality is used as a wedge issue and quite frankly my vocation as a minister is part of it as well.
    — Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Apr. 2018
  • From the early days of the campaign, Trudeau has sought to position vaccine mandates as a wedge issue.
    — Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2021
  • As an emotional wedge issue, Israel is ideal for this trans-spectrum populism.
    — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 22 May 2026
  • The moment illustrates again the power of education as a wedge issue.
    — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 21 Oct. 2021
  • And, right now, rising pump prices and end-user cost perceptions could make energy a potent election wedge issue.
    — Dan Weil, WSJ, 12 July 2021
  • This wedge issue bandwagon is brought to you by the same people who drove the anti-Title IX bus for decades.
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 May 2021
  • How the system approaches policing was a key wedge issue in November’s board elections.
    — Ricardo Cano, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Some observers have suggested this could become a populist wedge issue in 2026.
    — Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2025
  • But as Tuesday’s primaries loom, the factory has become a wedge issue in local and state races for many voters near the future plant.
    — Drew Kann, ajc, 19 May 2022
  • The debate over what role the police should play in maintaining public safety has become the biggest wedge issue in the mayoral campaign.
    — New York Times, 12 June 2021
  • More and more evidence is emerging that the politicians banking on trans youth as a winning wedge issue have miscalculated.
    — Sam Ames, refinery29.com, 29 July 2022
  • How are some people in Columbus trying to use truth to derail the runaway train that is the wedge issue of critical race theory?
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 24 Aug. 2021
  • Some Republicans are working to make the reviews a wedge issue in upcoming primaries.
    — Fredreka Schouten, CNN, 23 Sep. 2021
  • In Petro’s telling, right-wing politicians throughout the world have cynically used immigration as a wedge issue.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Transgender rights have emerged as a wedge issue in the culture wars ahead of the November midterm congressional elections.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 9 May 2022
  • Likud and other right-wing parties consistently try to use the specter of Arab influence in the Knesset as a wedge issue.
    — Jo-Ann Mort, The New York Review of Books, 3 Feb. 2020

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