Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A taking of sides; engagement with a party.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A taking sides, as with a party, sect, or faction.
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Examples
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Had I really been cleansed of political side-taking in the midst of this possible once-in-a-lifetime experience?
Jade Simmons: The Surprising Thing About Playing at the White House Jade Simmons 2011
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Had I really been cleansed of political side-taking in the midst of this possible once-in-a-lifetime experience?
Jade Simmons: The Surprising Thing About Playing at the White House Jade Simmons 2011
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Had I really been cleansed of political side-taking in the midst of this possible once-in-a-lifetime experience?
Jade Simmons: The Surprising Thing About Playing at the White House Jade Simmons 2011
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The side-taking comes not only in the book's heavy-breathing subtitle—"How Moguls and Wall Street Plundered Great American Newspapers"—but on the jacket flap, where Mr. O'Shea peers out at us under a just-the-facts fedora, introducing himself as "award-winning journalist James O'Shea."
Newspaper Daze Matt Welch 2011
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Often, the only way to get the nourishment into the bellies of the needy is to hit and run, avoiding all petty ideological side-taking.
Moonstone Books for September 2007 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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They want it to be a side-taking issue, they want it to be divisive, and they want it to be used as a tool to generalize about everything and every one else.
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I look forward to our moving past this oversimplified side-taking period we seem to be in, and recognizing that a lot of us are in there pulling for a strong future for information in the public interest — each in our complex ways.
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It is an important point, service and side-taking are very different.
Irish Blogs 2008
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The very act of deciding that one issue makes a good story and another doesn't involves some side-taking, even if it's just deciding which subjects have a greater public interest.
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This is definitely a book that encourages readerly side-taking.
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