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campaign

[kam-peyn] / kæmˈpeɪn /


NOUN
in video and role-play games, the overarching story
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During Lee’s time in the administration, Bass was also receiving pro bono communications help from Yusef Robb, an outside consultant who worked on her 2022 campaign.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2026

She said in her resignation letter last year that the leak was meant to counter a smear campaign by critics who opposed investigating soldiers during wartime.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 15, 2026

But during his by-election campaign last month, Burnham suggested he would not change the voting system immediately if he became prime minister.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

Because no such "secondary transit" occurred during the observing campaign, this final test was not needed.

From Science Daily Jul. 14, 2026

He quickly realized, though, that close advisors within the White House and his reelection campaign had been involved.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

The elder Ellison, one of the world's richest men, is a close ally of Trump and a major donor to his political campaigns.

From Barron's Jul. 13, 2026

In other news, Talarico’s campaign announced this week that he raised $30 million from April to June, a record for Senate campaigns in the second quarter of an election year.

From Slate Jul. 11, 2026

But neither midfielder is currently viewed as a realistic sale after campaigns disrupted by fitness problems.

From BBC Jul. 8, 2026

After campaigns ended, they typically folded into the parties’ mainstreams and became leaders in subsequent electoral cycles.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 2026

Media campaigns would be unleashed in an effort to overturn the punitive public consensus on race.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

Yes Scotland, the group which campaigned for independence in the 2014 referendum, says it has handed over its full accounts to the police after a complaint was made about its finances.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

Arsenal fans campaigned against the new Premier League champions renewing their deal, with the Gunners for Peace group suggesting Tottenham would be a better sleeve sponsor.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

The first prime minister born in Canada’s Northwest Territories, Carney was an unlikely radical, a picture of the global elite Trump campaigned against.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 2026

His daughter, Grace Jin Drexel, a U.S. citizen, had campaigned for her father’s freedom.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 5, 2026

In 1957, the former Marine test pilot had campaigned fiercely— and unsuccessfully—to be the first of the Mercury Seven to navigate to the heavens.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

Graham had served in the Senate since 2003 after four terms in the House of Representatives and was campaigning for another six-year term after winning South Carolina’s Republican primary last month.

From Salon Jul. 12, 2026

They added that Widdecombe loved the "cut and thrust of political debate" and despite leaving Parliament 16 years ago, was "still actively campaigning for Reform UK".

From BBC Jul. 10, 2026

The party establishment sees a different lesson: that opposition research, debate scrutiny and general-election campaigning exist for a reason.

From Barron's Jul. 9, 2026

But Mills had to be dragged into running the first time, and that reticence showed in her campaigning ability.

From Slate Jul. 7, 2026

The girls made campaigning more relaxing, if only because they weren't much invested in the outcome.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama




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