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as in to temporize
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Recent Examples of filibuster
Senate Republicans plan to vote on a government funding package as soon as Thursday, shrugging off Democrats’ vows to filibuster the legislation unless DHS funding is removed and amended after two fatal Minnesota shootings.
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Burgess Everett,
semafor.com,
27 Jan. 2026
This ability for the minority to filibuster to block legislation is one of the biggest things that distinguishes the Senate from the House of Representatives.
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Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
12 Oct. 2025
Senators for decades have cherished the ability to filibuster, allowing extended debates on the floor that required legislators of both parties to compromise on legislation.
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Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
12 Sep. 2025
Instead, Carol Alvarado, a state senator from Houston, prepared a last-ditch effort to filibuster the bill.
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Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
2 Sep. 2025
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Burgess Everett,
semafor.com,
27 Jan. 2026
This ability for the minority to filibuster to block legislation is one of the biggest things that distinguishes the Senate from the House of Representatives.
—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
12 Oct. 2025
Senators for decades have cherished the ability to filibuster, allowing extended debates on the floor that required legislators of both parties to compromise on legislation.
—
Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
12 Sep. 2025
Instead, Carol Alvarado, a state senator from Houston, prepared a last-ditch effort to filibuster the bill.
—
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
2 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for filibuster
Recent Examples of Synonyms for filibuster
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Assad lied and temporized, the official said.
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Accompanying these principles must be a rejection of the impulse to temporize about the dangers that confront us and a rejection of the bizarre deprecation of our nation and civilization.
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Benatia got a three-month suspension for haranguing a fourth official.
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While American pundits wrote haranguing op-eds warning that the breaking of diplomatic precedent would prompt China to escalate war, ordinary people in Taiwan celebrated.
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Prioritizing tasks also is important since the social aspect of admin dates can become an excuse to procrastinate.
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Natomas resident Sarah Arizaga, 46, wasn’t familiar with all of the candidates, so procrastinated on submitting her ballot until the final day.
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This lucidity not only makes his work readable but also staves off the perception that discourse about UFOs and the CIA must be riddled with conspiratorial paranoia.
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From the whitewashing controversy to the toxic love to the daring costumes, the discourse is going to be discoursing.
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How these issues are handled could fuel the engine of progress on some seemingly intractable issues over the next two years, or stall it.
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The campaign, which Zelenskyy has said aims to bring Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table, has choked Russian fuel supplies and military deliveries, stalling Moscow’s efforts on the battlefield and heaping pressure on Putin, Western officials and analysts say.
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While Blutinger was speaking, history professor Jonathan Roth attempted to take video of the protesters in the hallway and got into a physical altercation with a female student who tried to block him from doing so.
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The two spoke during a roundtable meeting in Thornton hosted by the America First Policy Institute.
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Trump is speaking now to a crowd filling the National Mall after being delayed by inclement weather.
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Attendees were told to shelter in nearby government buildings, and the celebration was delayed by a few hours before going on as scheduled.
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Some commentators in the United States have taken the opportunity to lecture Europeans, and perhaps even indulge in a little schadenfreude.
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The work, then, is not to lecture communities into trusting us.
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“Filibuster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/filibuster. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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