card-carrying member

Example Sentences

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Writing for the Telegraph, Ms Mahmood, who describes herself as a "card-carrying member" of her party's "law and order wing", said that "tough community orders work."

From BBC • May 17, 2025

As a formally trained jazz drummer and card-carrying member of generation hip-hop, Overall has been known for blending traditional jazz with hip-hop production and lyrical interplay in fresh ways.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 5, 2023

Knot is considered a card-carrying member of the ECB hawk club, which was clearly irked by recent reports that the central bank might step down to quarter-point hikes in March.

From Reuters • Jan. 23, 2023

This is why scholars are puzzling over the life of the Jewish painter Jona Ostiglio, a card-carrying member of a prestigious academy founded by the famed artist Giorgio Vasari.

From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2022

She has gone from welfare statistic in the early 1990s to credit card-carrying member of the middle class, a woman for whom there are now few statistics, so rare has her experience been.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times