See politick on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2007 October 13, Will Hutton, “Will China's next leader be its Gorbachev?”, in The Observer, →ISSN:",
"text": "Every important figure in communist China, ranging from city mayors to the chief executives of state-owned enterprises, will gather and politick for the next five days—and then choose a President of China to succeed Hu Jintao in 2012.",
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"ref": "2010 March 8, Lynda Obst, “What This Year's Oscars Mean for Hollywood”, in The Atlantic:",
"text": "Now, explicit politicking is banned by the academy, though writing to your friends is not. There is a way to politick subtly, though, and Summit, Hurt Locker’s distributor had been doing it just right, with its perfect publicists getting word out about the movie and “friends of the filmmakers” hosting a series of private parties.",
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"ref": "2017 January 20, Conor Friedersdorf, “The American People's Burden on Inauguration Day”, in The Atlantic:",
"text": "Individuals can oppose one another full-force on subjects like Obamacare, or a border wall, or the best person to fill a Supreme Court vacancy, in concert with this project. They can politick and debate, protest and lobby, write Washington and picket Main Street.",
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"ref": "2022, Mark Bergen, Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube’s Chaotic Rise to World Domination, Penguin, →ISBN:",
"text": "Being Googley had a motto: “Don't politick. Use data.”",
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"ref": "2022 June 4, Nick Cohen, “Unlike the Queen, King Charles will have no sense of caution, only of entitlement”, in The Observer, →ISSN:",
"text": "The Queen doesn’t moan. Her son does. The Queen doesn’t politick. He can’t help himself.",
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"ref": "2024 June 7, Angelique Chrisafis, “‘You can feel a shift’: will the French be lured by Le Pen?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
"text": "The next three years, including municipal elections in 2026, will be dominated, therefore, by politicking over the place of the far right.",
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},
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},
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"text": "Being Googley had a motto: “Don't politick. Use data.”",
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},
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"ref": "2022 June 4, Nick Cohen, “Unlike the Queen, King Charles will have no sense of caution, only of entitlement”, in The Observer, →ISSN:",
"text": "The Queen doesn’t moan. Her son does. The Queen doesn’t politick. He can’t help himself.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2024 June 7, Angelique Chrisafis, “‘You can feel a shift’: will the French be lured by Le Pen?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
"text": "The next three years, including municipal elections in 2026, will be dominated, therefore, by politicking over the place of the far right.",
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