as in neutral
relating to or involving members of two political parties
a bipartisan effort The bill has bipartisan support.
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Recent Examples of bipartisan
Advertisement Congress regularly renewed and amended the Voting Rights Act for more than four decades, with broad bipartisan support.
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Time, 12 Sep. 2025
Critics are hoping that bipartisan support for these state efforts, as well as federal efforts like the Take It Down Act (which Cruz supported), will ensure that Cruz's framework and sandbox bill aren't adopted as drafted.
—Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2025
The move to extend the deadline has been a bipartisan cause in many states.
—Willoughby Mariano, ProPublica, 11 Sep. 2025
The bipartisan political process in Congress in the past few years has been almost nonexistent.
—Arie Perliger, The Conversation, 11 Sep. 2025
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Time, 12 Sep. 2025
Critics are hoping that bipartisan support for these state efforts, as well as federal efforts like the Take It Down Act (which Cruz supported), will ensure that Cruz's framework and sandbox bill aren't adopted as drafted.
—Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2025
The move to extend the deadline has been a bipartisan cause in many states.
—Willoughby Mariano, ProPublica, 11 Sep. 2025
The bipartisan political process in Congress in the past few years has been almost nonexistent.
—Arie Perliger, The Conversation, 11 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for bipartisan
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bipartisan
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As the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis documented, the press are often participants, not merely neutral observers, in the Israel-Islamist conflict.—
Sean Durns,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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Stellar mass black holes are considered to be electrically neutral, and until now, primordial black holes were theorized to be the same.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Charter schools are overseen by independent boards, overwhelmingly, like nonprofit boards of directors that manage the oversight and then follow all or most of the same government rules related to public schools.—
Khaleda Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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Employers increasingly wonder whether campuses are cultivating independent thinkers or just cautious followers.—
Sarah Hernholm,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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As the leader of a nonpartisan group, Hurly didn’t want to talk about the recent drama on campus.—
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
13 Sep. 2025
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But Cox has quickly gained a national following — winning praise from both Democrats and Republicans — with his nonpartisan calls for unity in the days since Kirk was killed during an event at a Utah college campus.—
Daniel Bush,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Bipartisan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bipartisan. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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