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How to use the word pandering in a Sentence?

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It’s just sad because Andrea is really not even the kind of person that wants this kind of attention. She is not a sort of awards-pandering person and it all happened very organically.

Randy Shropshire/Getty Images Maron

Found on CNN
1 year ago

She's been pandering to pro-criminal allies and she's been on the wrong side of these issues one after the other, kathy Hochul can't confront this head-on because she hasn't actually been doing anything about it.

Lee Zeldin

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

While both my opponents spend their time pandering to an organization that has championed hate against our LGBT students and their families, I am spending my time in our community, talking to students, teachers, and families about school infrastructure, literacy curriculum, and STEM programs, loudoun deserves an effective and driven leader with a track record of success, not someone who will perpetuate failed culture war narratives. I know Loudoun voters are smart enough to know which candidate truly shares their values, and that's why I'm confident we will win in November.

Nicholas Gothard

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Right now, we need President Biden’s leadership, not his partisan pandering, if we are going to save the lives of both American law enforcement officers and the communities we are trying to protect.

Betsy Brantner Smith

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We’re done with the pandering, we don't want fake politicians that come and lie to us and just come every election cycle. We're holding them accountable. President Trump promised something, and he kept his promises, and we saw the results.

Betty Cardenas

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

From the very beginning, Lorne Michaels.SNL has made a point of not pandering. He doesn't wet his finger, hold it up in the air and try to guess what people want, saturday Night Live isn't afraid of controversy.

James Andrew Miller

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Missouri GOP Sen. Josh Hawley engaged in act of reckless pandering.

Sam Fox

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The reality is that facial recognition technology is too dangerous to be used at all. Like nuclear or biological weapons, it poses such a profound threat to the future of humanity that it should be banned outright, lawmakers need to stop pandering to Big Tech companies and corrupt law enforcement agencies and do their jobs.

Evan Greer

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I think it was probably a pandering move to go to the funeral, hes hoping, Jeanine, that all Americans forgot about his incredibly racist remark you just referred to -- if you dont vote for him, then you arent black.

Eric Trump

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

These tactics work because they're authentic to Joe Biden, it doesn't come across as pandering. Joe Biden's doing it in a way that is authentic to Joe Biden and that is authentic to Joe Biden campaign, and that's why I think it's so powerful.

Lis Smith

Found on CNN
3 years ago

His main message is going to be some combination of trying to arrest the panic in fixed income markets without being seen as pandering to trump.

Adam Posen

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We are choosing to listen to a powerful environmental lobby campaigning against fracking rather than allowing science and evidence to guide our policy making. By staying silent, we are in danger of pandering to what we know to be myths and scare stories.

Natascha Engel

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Stacey Abrams has that undeniable relatability that doesn't cross the line into 'pandering,'.

Candice Battiste

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

She speaks five languages, she was not born in the US, and she is generally viewed as more compassionate than her husband, so this is an important moment for her to show a more empathetic side of her husband's administration, it's important that people see her Africa trip in the best possible light, not as pandering or trying to deflect attention away from the scandal in the White House but as a genuine effort to help showcase accomplishments made there and the work that still needs to be done.

Kate Andersen Brower

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Surely we can rise above pandering to party and Putin to act on behalf of our freedom and our security.

Steny Hoyer

Found on CNN
5 years ago

You are more concerned with consent decrees, settlements, pandering to police-hating groups than negotiating a contract with us, our members are starting to believe you have no intention of negotiating a contract with us until after the next election.

Patrick Murray

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

We must maintain law and order at the highest level or we will cease to have a country. … I am the law and order candidate, hillary Clinton, on the other hand, is weak, ineffective, pandering and as proven by her recent email scandal … she’s either a liar or grossly incompetent.

Donald Trump

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

She carries hot sauce, like I carry hot sauce … it’s just so phony and so pandering.

Host Charlamagne Tha God

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

His zeal for pandering for the extreme left's money and agenda in his race for governor is making it impossible for him to fulfill his duties as attorney general.

Phil Berger

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

And (the presidency is) not a matter of pandering and doing whatever will get you in the news on a given day. And sometimes, it requires you making hard decisions even when people don't like it, it requires being able to work with leaders around the world in a way that reflects the importance of the office and gives people confidence that you know the facts and you know their names and you know where they are on a map and you know something about their history.

President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This is him pandering, he is not with them right now, he is trying to emulate (Mike) Huckabee.

Anthea Butler

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I mean, the fact is that you don't need to be pandering to one way or the other. I'll tell you the way you don't do it: You don't do focus group-tested trips to the border, speak Spanish and then, you know, criticize Asians.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Sure, the Clinton campaign wants to placate the base. But if Clinton’s recent positions are pandering, this is pandering with a purpose, and without an obvious cost. She’s saying everything she can to make the left happy — without backing herself into a left-wing corner. Where’s the downside in chiding Republicans on voting rights?

The Times piece

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It turns out that if you put Jeb Bush in the right room, he talks like Ted Kennedy. Put him somewhere else and he's the 'head-banging conservative' he once declared himself, maybe he doesn't realize how much has changed in the 13 years since he last ran for public office, but these days, the cameras are always rolling — and flagrant pandering isn't a good look.

Jesse Lehrich

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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