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lobbying

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Recent Examples of lobbying The company has also spent millions on anti-regulatory lobbying. — Brandon Gomez, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026 Others pointed out that California Forever has political clout because its chief lobbying firm, Axiom Advisors, employs several of Newsom’s friends and former officials. — Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 26 Aug. 2026 As YouTube faces heightened scrutiny in Brussels, the lecture also had some lobbying purposes. — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 26 Aug. 2026 The News Companies that do business with Canada, and the lawmakers who represent them, are ramping up their lobbying for carveouts from new US tariffs on Canada. — Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 26 Aug. 2026 For now, the Coalition for Prediction Markets is spending a fraction of Kalshi’s direct lobbying expenses. — Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 25 Aug. 2026 There’s also now a lobbying effort to back a state bill that would give tax breaks to postproduction firms, similar to a policy in New York. — Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2026 The new story digs into the lobbying efforts and behind-the-scenes maneuvering that preceded Live Nation’s surprise settlement with the DOJ in early March, just one week into the company’s federal antitrust trial. — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 24 Aug. 2026 But at each step, the NCAA fought reform through lobbying and influence peddlers focusing more on its finances than the well-being of athletes. — U.s. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Hartford Courant, 24 Aug. 2026

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When students graduate, they'll be prepared for roles in content strategy, digital influencing, brand development, social media management and audience engagement across industries.

— Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 6 Aug. 2026
Nicolas Matthew Scelfo of Brooklyn, New York, faces up to 10 years in prison after being charged with influencing, impeding, and retaliating against a federal officer by threat.

— Anna Giaritelli, The Washington Examiner, 10 June 2026

Definition of influencing

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The first drills Monday focused on rebounding, the next half-dozen on various aspects of their pressuring, helping, swarming, trapping defense.

— Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 July 2026
As the two wander around the museum—one pressuring, the other deflecting—the novel portrays their professed enmity as underscored by the force of attraction, even of love.

— Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2026

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An agentic system pursues a goal across multiple steps—retrieving data, calling APIs, applying business rules, making decisions and handing off exceptions—with limited human prompting along the way.

— Tammy Hawes, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
That’s the future Google and other tech giants predict, with AI agents soon handling tasks on our phones without constant prompting, potentially freeing us up to do other things.

— Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 12 Aug. 2026

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Gerber was just 18 at the time, and appeared in the cover swaying and singing with Cara Delevingne and Ashley Benson.

— Leigh Blickley, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Aug. 2026
To me, what emerges from this swaying feels more natural than simply forging ahead with a predetermined, easily understood logic.

— Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of swaying

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Backstabbing, scheming, secret children showing up to cause trouble, brainwashing, amnesia, terrorist massacres at weddings, and shoulder pads… so, so many shoulder pads.

— Maggie Fremont, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Aug. 2026
Advertisement Hank then explains why the mainframe of the entire brainwashing system was routed through the head of Representative Welch (Martha Kelly).

— Barry Levitt, Time, 4 Feb. 2026

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