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campaign

[kam-payn] / kæmˈpeɪn /


NOUN
in video and role-play games, the overarching story
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The European Union’s antitrust body said it accepted Sanofi’s SAN 0.33%increase; green up pointing triangle concessions to settle a competition investigation into the French drugmaker’s marketing campaign for a flu vaccine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

The Aviation Environment Federation campaign group has previously defended the fees, arguing they help reduce congestion and air pollution around airports.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

The program, announced earlier this year, is an official congressional initiative rather than a campaign operation.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

Raman and Bass have been mostly evenly matched in their most recent campaign fundraising reports, with each collecting about $2.5 million for the runoff.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

Oliver Wendell Holmes once observed that “a great man represents a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists of his being there.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

The EU launched the probe in June over concerns that Sanofi’s marketing in France and Germany amounted to disparagement campaigns against CSL.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Elizabeth Strater, director of strategic campaigns and national vice president of UFW, said farmworkers began reporting the immigration enforcement patrols on Oct.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

A spokesperson for the Born Free Foundation, which campaigns to phase out zoos, called for an "urgent review" into "how the man managed to enter the enclosure and what happened next".

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

That could include the Save the Children charity and Ukraine's Mykola Kuleba, who campaigns for the return of kids illegally taken to Russia -- a cause close to the heart of Trump's wife Melania.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Neither Washington nor Adams had ever played a direct role in their own campaigns for office.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

Observers quickly pointed out inconsistencies in the timeline: Talarico attended a Dallas concert for country artist Kacey Musgraves that same day – and campaigned in Austin the day before.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

Mamdani also campaigned on a promise to change policing, including moving the role of responding to mental-health crises to a new department.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Charlotte Brumpton-Childs, national secretary of the GMB union, which has campaigned for the move, said it would be a "massive boost" for the UK's shipbuilding sector.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

Together they became a power duo who campaigned to build a home for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, which three decades later led to the Music Center.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

In 1947, she warned of the dangers of atomic warfare and campaigned for global efforts to ban nuclear weapons.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

As for Bass, 73, you can’t count her out just yet because she’s a fighter, and she’s better at campaigning than at being mayor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

During his campaigning across France this summer, he put forward a programme rooted in the left that tries to reconcile ecological transition with social progress.

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026

Another woman member who had been campaigning against the men’s bar suddenly decamped to the other side.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

Questioned by presenter Nick Robinson on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he denied deliberately avoiding the debate, saying he had been campaigning in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

In the fall of 1862, without any campaigning on his part, Garfield was elected.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow




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