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loyalty

[loi-uhl-tee] / ˈlɔɪ əl ti /


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As the Times story and a recent report in the Wall Street Journal make clear, Martin is also hemorrhaging the party’s confidence and loyalty.

From Salon Jul. 26, 2026

As I wrote at the time, missives of public loyalty from cabinet ministers towards a prime minister shouldn't be newsworthy and they only become so when the opposite seems feasible.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

Bisignano demanded his own team pledge loyalty to him directly, people who spoke with him said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

Doing so keeps the Constitution at the center of our popular democratic culture, renewing our loyalty to the document and our sense of its relevance.

From Slate Jul. 20, 2026

Cesare Borgia was considered cruel; nonetheless, this cruelty of his brought order to the Romagna, united it, and restored it to peace and loyalty.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

To find out if I was alone, I travelled across the capital meeting people whose loyalties are shaped by more than one country.

From BBC Jul. 5, 2026

And as dramatists, they’re uniquely positioned to appreciate the conflicted loyalties and communal tensions of American life in dramatic rather than dogmatic terms.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 29, 2026

Every significant criminal case eventually becomes a vessel into which the country pours its anxieties, fears, loyalties, and grievances.

From Slate Jun. 17, 2026

Leo XIV tossed away the diplomatic tact usually required of popes as he began a state visit to Spain on Saturday, revealing that his footballing loyalties lie with Real Madrid.

From Barron's Jun. 6, 2026

Since I was alone now with her, and desperate, I cast my loyalties aside and told her the name of the guilty boy, feeling that he merited no consideration.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright




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