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- verb Present participle of
triangulate .
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Examples
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Adding a new entitlement might be good politics in triangulating against the Democrats, but this is nothing but an expensive entitlement that will snowball.
AARP rent-seeking, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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It would take a new breed of "triangulating" technocrat Democrats to really dismantle the carefully built net designed, after the last Great Depression, to restrain Wall Street from its pattern of periodic self-immolations.
Robert Scheer: 'The Great American Stickup': Is Bush Really To Blame For The Economy? 2010
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It will quiet all the talk about Obama's supposed "triangulating," because it demonstrates -- for the time being, anyway -- that even as the White House sees a need to trade away some core liberal priorities to compromise with Repubilcans, Obama seems to want to bring the left along with him, to whatever degree he can.
DADT repeal wins! Greg Sargent 2010
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"You might call it, if you went back to the Clinton era, a kind of triangulating where the president is now floating somewhere between the Republican Party and his congressional Democrats, and it is a difficult strategy to pull off but if he can do it, it is a smart one," said Fortier.
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It would take a new breed of "triangulating" technocrat Democrats to really dismantle the carefully built net designed, after the last Great Depression, to restrain Wall Street from its pattern of periodic self-immolations.
Robert Scheer: 'The Great American Stickup': Is Bush Really To Blame For The Economy? 2010
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It would take a new breed of "triangulating" technocrat Democrats to really dismantle the carefully built net designed, after the last Great Depression, to restrain Wall Street from its pattern of periodic self-immolations.
Robert Scheer: 'The Great American Stickup': Is Bush Really To Blame For The Economy? 2010
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I think the conversation about Barack Obama "triangulating" is largely coming up now because it fits a familiar narrative -- an embattled Democratic president facing a confident Republican majority and a disappointed base.
Obama has always triangulated Adam Serwer 2010
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It would take a new breed of "triangulating" technocrat Democrats to really dismantle the carefully built net designed, after the last Great Depression, to restrain Wall Street from its pattern of periodic self-immolations.
Robert Scheer: 'The Great American Stickup': Is Bush Really To Blame For The Economy? 2010
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Many criticize the Clintons for "triangulating", but what's the different between that and Obama?
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The trashed her as a 'triangulating' 'narcissist' who would do and say anything to get elected.
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