stake out

I use these terms—extraneous, germane, regular order—for the purposes of persuading Democratic elites that they should stake out different grounds for fighting, not because I think Democrats themselves should use those terms on the hustings.

It was why one of the first things I did that Friday morning, one day before the RunningLane championships, was stake out a good location within John Hunt Park for our tent.

“Peacemaker” isn’t covering any ground that many other movies and TV shows didn’t stake out first.

He argued that Democrats’ primary voters were inflaming the polarization by pushing their lawmakers to stake out a more extreme position by breaking quorum.

Different groupings are aligned with Burhan, with Hemedti, or trying to stake out a neutral position.