Sample Sentences for
partisan
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partisan as in:  partisan, not balanced

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    I was hoping for a balanced report, but heard only partisan praise.
    partisan = biased in favor of a view
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    Alabama elects all of its judges in highly competitive partisan elections, one of only six states to do so (thirty-two states have some form of nonpartisan judicial election process).  (source)
    partisan = based on political party support
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    There was a link of understanding between them, more important than affection or partisanship.  (source)
    partisanship = shared bias in favor of something
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    Snape was no less obviously partisan; he had booked the Quidditch pitch for Slytherin practice so often that the Gryffindors had difficulty getting on it to play.  (source)
    partisan = biased in favor of a group
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    During the weeks that followed her surprise party, while Rhett was mysteriously absent and the town in a frenzied state of gossip, excitement and partisanship, she gave no quarter to Scarlett's detractors, whether they were her old friends or her blood kin.†  (source)
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    The nonpartisan fellowship also gave me the chance to learn from the other fellows, an impressively diverse and talented group from all over the country.  (source)
    nonpartisan = not based upon strong support for any person or idea
    standard prefix: The prefix "non-" in nonpartisan means not and reverses the meaning of partisan. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
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    Becoming partisan fighters for the Russians might have kept them safe.†  (source)
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    Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship.†  (source)
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    If the Post was as obstinate and relentless as a rat terrier crazed by the scent of rodents—which it was—it was redeemed, for Joe, by the nonpartisan nature of its fury.†  (source)
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    Is that a partisan there, that old man with the saw cutting trees?†  (source)
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    My rather meek remonstrance to the effect that wolves had been preying on caribou, without decimating the herds, for some tens of thousands of years before the white men came to Brochet, either fell on deaf ears or roused my listeners to fury at my partisanship.†  (source)
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    Santos had reached a terrified ambassador in London with a question so loaded it made a political party's private poll look like the essence of nonpartisan neutrality.†  (source)
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    Partisan fighters would have given us shelter for the night, someplace warm.†  (source)
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partisan as in:  a partisan of the political party

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Partisans were out in force at the senator's rally.
partisans = people who strongly support someone or something
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    The partisans of the two opposing candidates were engaged in a heated debate.
    partisans = people who strongly support someone
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    He need not have been a partisan of any faction in the town, but there is evidence to suggest that he had a sharp and biting way with hypocrites.  (source)
    partisan = supporter
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    Yitzchak, who had indeed escaped, had lived in the forest with the partisans, fighting the Germans.  (source)
    partisans = members of an armed resistance group
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    This particular year, with the development of the war and Hitler's current victorious position, the Nazi partisans of Molching wanted the celebration to be especially befitting.  (source)
    partisans = supporters
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    Exeunt Tybalt with his Partizans.  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is more commonly spelled, partisans.
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    If, heretofore, I had been none of the warmest of partisans I began now, at this season of peril and adversity, to be pretty acutely sensible with which party my predilections lay; nor was it without something like regret and shame that, according to a reasonable calculation of chances, I saw my own prospect of retaining office to be better than those of my democratic brethren.  (source)
    partisans = people who strongly support someone or something
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    The partisans usually posted a sentry to take the tree messages, and slept during the afternoon, partly because so much of their hunting had to be done in the times when most workmen sleep, and partly because the wild beasts take a nap in the afternoon and so should their hunters.  (source)
    partisans = members of an armed resistance group
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    Max went off to join the partisans and was killed fighting the Germans.†  (source)
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    They worry lest we join the partisans ...†  (source)
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    Because really, Werner thinks, they are all insurgents, all partisans, every single person they see.†  (source)
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    The partisans often move through this area, which brings the Germans in to search for them.†  (source)
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    His favorite times were sitting around the fire with the partisans, listening to them talk.†  (source)
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    This is the kind of war that will wind on and make fools of its partisans and opponents both.†  (source)
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partisan as in:  a partisan of the armed resistance

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    Supporters of partisans were executed by the occupying army.
    partisans = members of an armed resistance group
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    While, if you did invite him to the meet, what would the King's huntsman and the neighbours say at havin' a partisan for a fellow guest?  (source)
    partisan = ember of an armed resistance group
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    The partizans did their damage and pulled out.  (source)
    partizans = members of an armed resistance
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    That was before the first "partizan" groups had been formed;  (source)
    partizan = strongly supporting an idea
    unconventional spelling: This is more commonly spelled, partisan.
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    A few of the Gaelic ones revolted, who were quelled later, but in the main the people of England and the partizans like Robin were glad to settle down.  (source)
    partizans = members of an armed resistance group
    unconventional spelling: This is more commonly spelled, partisans.
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    Robin Wood was a Saxon partizan.  (source)
    partizan = member of an armed resistance group
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    In all the work that they, the partizans, did, they brought added danger and bad luck to the people that sheltered them and worked with them.  (source)
    partizans = members of an armed resistance
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    You know the one, Jordan, who is with the partizan group.  (source)
    partizan = of members of an armed resistance
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    How do you like partizan work?  (source)
    partizan = a member of an armed resistance
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    Tell me, Comrade Marty, have you heard anything of any message coming through for Golz from one of our partizan groups operating toward Segovia?  (source)
    partizan = of members of an armed resistance
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    "Yes," Karkov looked at him contemptuously, "a young American of slight political development but a great way with the Spaniards and a fine partizan record."  (source)
    partizan = relating to being a member of an armed resistance
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partisan as in:  killed with a partisan

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The partisan was a popular weapon among the Swiss pikemen in the 15th century.
partisan = a weapon that resembles an elaborate spear
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    The partisan was a formidable weapon in the hands of a skilled warrior.
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    To wield old partisans, in hands as old,  (source)
    partisans = weapons that resemble an elaborate spear
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    Why, this it is to have a name in great men's fellowship: I had as lief have a reed that will do me no service as a partizan I could not heave.  (source)
    partizan = a weapon that resembles an elaborate spear
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Clubs, bills, and partisans! strike! beat them down!  (source)
partisans = weapons that resemble an elaborate spear
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