partisan
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Like Cook, he traffics in clear-eyed, dispassionate analysis, not partisan wish-casting or political spin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
“My service has spanned both Republican and Democratic administrations. I am not a politician, and I have no partisan loyalties,” he said.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
The battles fought between surviving friends—in this case Wilde’s literary executor, Robert Ross, and Wilde’s onetime boyfriend, Alfred “Bosie” Douglas—are more partisan, the enmities more acrimonious.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Increasingly confident to take the initiative, she was roared on by a partisan but disappointingly small home crowd.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
Valentina flew more than 1,850 of these missions, and evacuated around 2,500 orphaned children and wounded partisan fighters.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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