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lobbying

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Recent Examples of lobbying For some organizations, such as the Association for Accessible Medicines, an increase in lobbying spending is the result of a concerted effort to flex their advocacy muscle. — Megan R. Wilson, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2026 The organization built a political presence in Texas with lobbying and legislative testimony as the state pushed back on transgender ideology in recent years. — Hudson Crozier, The Washington Examiner, 21 Oct. 2026 Anthropic’s lobbying form lists the Collaboration on Adversarial Threats and Security Risks Act, a bill that would allow labs to coordinate with each other on security risks, as a point of focus for the company on Capitol Hill. — Ashley Gold, semafor.com, 21 Oct. 2026 The lawmakers had asked the companies about their contracts, lobbying expenditures, and protocols for making changes in light of system errors, among other issues. — Samantha Liss, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026 Today, lobbying has grown into a multibillion-dollar industry and business now outspends labor and public-interest groups 34-to-one. — Christopher Marquis, Time, 16 Oct. 2026 The final agreement omitted references to lobbying, with Vincer’s agency, Notorious, signing the contract with Tether as an intermediary for Nxum. — Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2026 And could all this lobbying backfire into an NCAA super-union? — Pablo Torre Laura Newcombe, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2026 PACs help PACs, too Rounding out the list is South Florida Vision, a PAC managed by local lawyer and lobbyist Jose Fuentes and funded by various lobbying clients. — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 15 Oct. 2026

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Suleiman Sami’s business, S Sami Services LLC, provides transportation services, event ticket sales and social media influencing.

— Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 2 Sep. 2026
When students graduate, they'll be prepared for roles in content strategy, digital influencing, brand development, social media management and audience engagement across industries.

— Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of influencing

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The first drills Monday focused on rebounding, the next half-dozen on various aspects of their pressuring, helping, swarming, trapping defense.

— Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 July 2026
As the two wander around the museum—one pressuring, the other deflecting—the novel portrays their professed enmity as underscored by the force of attraction, even of love.

— Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2026

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Three dedicated Claude courses progress from basic prompting and research to reusable Skills, integrations, and multi-step AI workflows.

— StackCommerce Team, PC Magazine, 20 Oct. 2026
The researchers’ solution was to stop relying only on what the person was physically asking, either by action or direct prompting, and instead receive confirmation from the brain itself.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of prompting

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The new Chandelier sandal, characterized by its serpent-spiral shape, is hand embroidered with more than 170 swaying drop beads made from multifaceted or transparent crystals.

— Katie Abel, Footwear News, 28 Sep. 2026
Gerber was just 18 at the time, and appeared in the cover swaying and singing with Cara Delevingne and Ashley Benson.

— Leigh Blickley, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of swaying

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Backstabbing, scheming, secret children showing up to cause trouble, brainwashing, amnesia, terrorist massacres at weddings, and shoulder pads… so, so many shoulder pads.

— Maggie Fremont, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Aug. 2026
Advertisement Hank then explains why the mainframe of the entire brainwashing system was routed through the head of Representative Welch (Martha Kelly).

— Barry Levitt, Time, 4 Feb. 2026

Definition of brainwashing

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