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  • noun Plural form of politician.

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Examples

  • Faith in politicians is a perilous path, whatever one's political persuasion.

    Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog: 2009

  • It's the word politicians who think they're better and brighter than normal people use when they're trying to make normal people think they're normal.

    The President's Island Retreat Peggy Noonan 2011

  • I think faith in politicians is at an all-time low.

    i'm just saying 2005

  • That's a term politicians use when they want to talk about cutting non-entitlement spending but they don't want anyone to think they'd dare take a single tank away from the Pentagon.

    Choose your own deficit 2010

  • That's a term politicians use when they want to talk about cutting non-entitlement spending but they don't want anyone to think they'd dare take a single tank away from the Pentagon.

    Choose your own deficit 2010

  • Every incumbant goes take back our power- when we have one term politicians things will get uncomplicated and the power shifts to the people.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2012

  • It's a term politicians have used for years to describe dressing up old policies with a new look -- without changing the meaning of the policy.

    KCTV5.com - News 2008

  • It's a term politicians have used for years to describe dressing up old policies with a new look -- without changing the meaning of the policy.

    KSAT.com - Local News 2008

  • It's a term politicians have used for years to describe dressing up old policies with a new look -- without changing the meaning of the policy.

    KSAT.com - Local News 2008

  • Nice framing argument, but actually republicans are cheap – that’s why they make the federal government divert working class people’s taxes into their no-bid contracts and scams so they don’t have to work, and the money they ‘invest’ in politicians is returned through illegal kickbacks.

    Think Progress » ElBaradei, Smeared By Administration, Wins Nobel Peace Prize 2005

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