as in partial
inclined to favor one side over another
a shamelessly partisan reporter covering the primary campaign
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also partizan
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as in adherent
one who follows the opinions or teachings of another
partisans of the charismatic leader refuse to tolerate any criticism of him at all
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as in crusader
one who is intensely or excessively devoted to a cause
a partisan of the revolution who was even willing to give her life for it
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as in sectarian
one who stubbornly or intolerantly adheres to his or her own opinions and prejudices
she's too much of a political partisan to ever concede that the other side might have a valid point
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Recent Examples of partisan
Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 17 Feb. 2025
Immigration issues have trended partisan from the state’s politicians at the federal and state levels, and the former U.S. House of Representatives member has joined colleagues across the country seeking halts to the administration’s policies.
—Alan Wooten | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 15 Feb. 2025
Judy Berman, TIME, 22 Jan. 2025
Those who investigated the attack could be either truth-tellers or corrupt partisans.
—Luke Broadwater, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025
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Adjective
Here, again, there was a noticeable partisan divide.
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Would Jury Duty have become such a hit, and Gladden such a hero, had its producers picked a woman or a person of color or a member of the LGBTQ community (let alone a vocal political partisan) as a star?
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The partial solar eclipse will occur from 4:50 a.m. to 8:43 a.m. EDT on March 29, according to Space.com.—
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Plans are still in the works, but managers are exploring all options and may consider at least partial demolition of the mall.—
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Another college at risk is Williamsburg Brooklyn’s United Talmudic Seminary, which trains more than 2,000 male adherents to the ultra-orthodox Satmar Hasidic sect in Jewish law and teachings.—
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This minority religious population has faced systematic genocide, with the CCP detaining over one million adherents.—
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Where earlier welfare states delivered benefits, Biden’s welfare state became a crusader for economic, social, and cultural change.—
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His supporters depict him as a crusader for FBI reform who wants to tamp down prosecutorial misconduct and surveillance abuse.—
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People want to get rid of religious parties, people want to put sectarians behind to build an Iraq for all Iraqis.—
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Both sides insist the other initiated the initial volley of gunfire that killed four agents and six sectarians.—
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In a notable thawing of tensions between Russia and the U.S., Trump even promised to visit Moscow, and said Putin would be welcome in Washington, D.C. The president has also become increasingly hostile toward Ukraine.—
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China’s relentless nuclear buildup, its hostile espionage operations, its militant rhetoric, and, above all, its support for Russia suggest that Xi has already made his call and that a confrontation with the United States is inevitable.—
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Price’s YouTube channel has since amassed nearly 1.4 million followers, with an additional 1.1 million followers on Instagram.—
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Indian media reported that there was a bomb threat against the aircraft, and Flight Emergency, a flight-tracking account on X with more than 195,000 followers, also wrote that the diversion was due to a bomb threat.—
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Restrictive nationalists, the largest group in the sample, showed only moderate levels of national pride.—
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Modi, a nationalist, continued his personal trend of heaping praise on Trump.—
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This has produced distorted or inaccurate results for years.—
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The instrumentation stayed true to the alt-rock sound, with distorted guitars and driving drums keeping up the pace.—
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“Partisan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/partisan. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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