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campaign

[kam-peyn] / kæmˈpeɪn /


NOUN
in video and role-play games, the overarching story
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The legal fight carries broad implications for a mayor who focused his campaign on affordability and has walked picket lines for workers seeking better wages.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 29, 2026

An earlier poll had put the Yes campaign ahead.

From BBC Aug. 29, 2026

The fight has also exposed the realities Mamdani faces now that he is in office to follow through on campaign promises when faced with fiscal constraints.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 29, 2026

Piker, who has said he was raised Muslim but is non-practicing, called himself a victim of a "coordinated smear campaign" and Islamophobia.

From Barron's Aug. 28, 2026

The holograms look just like the one Woo threw at me—like digital campaign posters, advertising candidates for some sort of election.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

Russia’s and Ukraine’s long-range air campaigns both use drones and missiles, but their strategies are different.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

Nor will media literacy programs, stronger education about viruses, centralized hubs for medical information, “prebunking” campaigns, or community engagement programs—all good ideas from experts that still cannot meet the sheer force of our paranoia.

From Slate Aug. 26, 2026

Both campaigns sued in state circuit court, where a judge on Wednesday ruled for Hoskins in both cases.

From Salon Aug. 25, 2026

And grassroots campaigns are also unfolding, as community leaders recruit voters to defend their local elections, including online.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 23, 2026

The taxes he levied would help him finance future campaigns to expand his territory and increase his power.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby

He campaigned during that time with Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive candidate now running for a US Senate seat after winning the Democratic nomination.

From Barron's Aug. 28, 2026

Graham’s victory can be credited to the massive margins she ran up in the Pee Dee, the region of the state around Myrtle Beach where Trump campaigned for her.

From Slate Aug. 26, 2026

“In the past, I supported him because of the policies he professed to support and passionately campaigned on,” Greene wrote.

From Salon Aug. 22, 2026

Yabloko has called the war in Ukraine “a grave crime” and campaigned for “a ceasefire, diplomacy, and peace!”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

He would later give an interview to a local paper, estimating that during the six or so months he campaigned for Congress, he spent less than four full days at home with me and Malia.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Senate race, both Ken Paxton and James Talarico have been campaigning around the state, meeting voters everywhere from restaurants to music halls as they’ve pitched their political visions.

From Salon Aug. 22, 2026

The party has a history of adapting to new forms of political communication, from being an early adopter of social media for campaigning to embracing newer formats such as podcasts and influencer interviews.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

In the 1960s, Labour's Harold Wilson modelled his TV campaigning on JFK in America.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

"Giving your opponent a way out" is one of his golden rules of campaigning - his full list can be found in his new book Institutionalised Deceit: Taking the Lid off Westminster Governance.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

The hostility began in 1789, when Burr accepted the office of attorney general in New York from Governor George Clinton after campaigning for Hamilton’s candidate, who lost.

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




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