pol

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noun

Pol

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abbreviation

Poland

Examples of pol in a Sentence

Noun Many of the city's residents have criticized local pols for their decision to close the public library.
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
There was no ingratiation, no name-check for the local pols. Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024 The deposition would not be a day at the beach, but the investigators doing the questioning tend to be less demagogic than the pols performing at public hearings. Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 11 Jan. 2024 Attacks by Washington pols only create unnecessary geopolitical tensions, and those, not the acquisition itself, could endanger American national security. Wilbur Ross, WSJ, 1 Jan. 2024 Even Republican journalists don’t speak that bluntly, to say nothing of pols and their staff. Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 27 Dec. 2023 The real menace isn’t posed by an elderly pol intent on protecting and renewing a democratic republic; it’s posed by a chaos agent who fomented insurrection and promises to return America to a state of misery. David Remnick, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2023 But there are signs that even the progressive pols who run this troubled city are not content to allow a continuing doom loop of human degradation. James Freeman, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2023 Who really knows what these pols escape to in their hours off the stump? Armond White, National Review, 8 Sep. 2023 Politicians use self-righteousness to disguise their anger, which separates pols from artists. Armond White, National Review, 15 Sep. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

Noun

circa 1942, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of pol was circa 1942

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“Pol.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pol. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

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