party line

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Recent Examples of party line Johnson’s narrow Republican majority means that the speaker can only lose a handful of votes from his conference and still pass the bill on a straight party line vote. Christina Wilkie,erin Doherty, CNBC, 21 May 2025 The amendment ended up failing 19-25 on party lines This happened at about 4:57 a.m. Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 May 2025 The vote fell mostly on party lines, but Charlotte Democrat Carla Cunningham supported House Bill 318. Ryan Oehrli, Charlotte Observer, 5 May 2025 House votes The House approved two of the bills Wednesday on largely party line votes. David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 30 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for party line
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conventional wisdom
Noun
  • The conventional wisdom was that newspapers might not survive the digital age, but were persevering in their heroic quest to tell the truth.
    Megan Greenwell, Rolling Stone, 5 June 2025
  • When Transactional Selling Beats Storytelling Grant Cardone, one of the most loudly heard voices in sales today, flips conventional wisdom on its head.
    Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025

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