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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
astroturf .
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Examples
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With that most ingrained and dependable of leftist traits - projection - on full display, liberals from California to Capitol Hill, including Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D), declared these hundreds of grassroots gatherings to be "astroturfed" - events funded by "corporate front groups" - and
RedState 2009
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Now that you have "astroturfed" the redneck racists, your afraid you will not be able to control them?
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If anything is contrived and "astroturfed", this is it.
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These kind of astroturfed propaganda marketing campaigns really bum me out.
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These kind of astroturfed propaganda marketing campaigns really bum me out.
Archive 2006-12-01 2006
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These kind of astroturfed propaganda marketing campaigns really bum me out.
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : Microsoft’s clumsy attempt at astroturfing 2006
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The implicit suggestion that these events were any more "astroturfed" (by whatever definition one prefers) than any demonstration organized by the left (the phrasing is a telltale) is fairly silly.
Donklephant 2009
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Not sure what your definition of astroturfed then is
Moveon.org zombie bites off health care protester’s finger. Wait, what? - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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But of course the teabaggers were never astroturfed?
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This is either an astroturfed comment board or, like I said earlier, you're just a bunch of mental patients.
Looking for a leader, Tea Partiers issue invite to Palin 2009
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Rather, it’s an astroturfed movement – one that creates an impression of widespread grassroots support where little exists – funded by a global network of highly organised far-right groups and amplified by Facebook’s misinformation machine.
The whole world should be worried by the ‘siege of Ottawa’. This is about much more than a few anti-vaxx truckers | Arwa Mahdawi Arwa Mahdawi 2022
tankhughes commented on the word astroturfed
https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZ/comments/1eathye/be_wary_of_reddit_during_election_season/
"Reddit has a history of being astroturfed during election years. I have seen past campaigns spend a lot of money hiring people to comment, post, and make bots favoring their candidate. I imagine you have all seen the huge uptake in political related content lately. Don’t believe everything you read!"
July 24, 2024