partisan

In a sentence

Six example sentences with partisan, each labelled with its topic.

• The committee split along partisan lines, and not one amendment attracted a single vote from the other benches.

  Politics

• Reviewers accused the documentary of being partisan, since it interviews eleven campaigners and nobody who disagrees with them.

  Movies

• Nineteenth century newspapers were openly partisan, printing election results beside editorials that told readers exactly whom to blame.

  History

• The partisan crowd booed every call against the home team, including the ones that replay showed were correct.

  Basketball

• A partisan economist will read the same jobs report as either proof of a boom or a warning of recession.

  Economics

• The review was openly partisan, praising the novel because the critic and the author had shared a mentor.

  Literature

Found in these word lists

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More Academic words

• initiation
• found
• interpretation
• exclude
• dominating
• dimension
• contributing
• resolving
• documented
• exhibit
• allocation
• conception