How to Use policymaker in a Sentence

policymaker

noun
Definition of policymakernext
  • In the years after the 9/11 attacks, a new threat loomed large in the minds of policymakers and the public: the dirty bomb.
    — William C. Potter, Foreign Affairs, 15 Dec. 2023
  • None of this could be a surprise to policymakers at the Fed.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2023
  • Or the policymakers might decide to raise their key rate one last time in July, to about 5.4%, and keep it there.
    — Christopher Rugaber, ajc, 14 June 2023
  • For a while, policymakers hoped those were bumps in the road, not a more worrisome trend.
    — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The past year has seen quite a few policymakers push their plans to protect kids online.
    — Adam Clark Estes, Vox, 19 June 2024
  • The rapid rise has startled investors and put policymakers in a tough spot.
    — Joe Rennison, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Credit card fees This is not the first time policymakers have weighed in on credit card fees.
    — CBS News, 6 Mar. 2024
  • If price gains don’t soften in response, policymakers could hike again before the end of the year.
    — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2023
  • Out-of-control inflation would put policymakers in a bit of a rough spot.
    — Peter Vanham, Fortune, 10 July 2023
  • The last caveat was the kind that policymakers typically want to strip out, but Hayden wisely put it in.
    — David V. Gioe, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
  • But the announcement came to the surprise of Utah policymakers.
    — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Details in the newest report are expected to inform policymakers ahead of the summit in Dubai, which will take place at the end of this month.
    — Breanne Deppisch, Washington Examiner, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Even as banks breezed through, the stress tests are still the subject of intense debate among economists and policymakers.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 29 June 2024
  • Many policymakers and safe water experts think that means the laws are too lenient.
    — Pien Huang, NPR, 1 Apr. 2024
  • If the advent of a four-day week prompts policymakers to pay attention to this all-important sector, that wouldn’t be a bad thing.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
  • In a world of finite resources, policymakers must come to terms with painful tradeoffs between these twin goals.
    — Michael Poznansky, Foreign Affairs, 5 Jan. 2024
  • In June, the Fed’s policymakers had forecast that year-over-year inflation would average 2.8% in the final three months of this year.
    — Rachel Reiff Ellis, Fortune, 29 July 2024
  • That could lead to an election-year scenario that policymakers likely want to avoid.
    — John Tozzi Bloomberg News (tns), arkansasonline.com, 6 Mar. 2024
  • All of the researchers agreed: Much higher seas are coming and policymakers must prepare now.
    — Evan Bush, NBC News, 23 Oct. 2023
  • That gives policymakers some time to work out exactly how these rules will be enforced.
    — Jess Weatherbed, The Verge, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Investors and policymakers will closely scour comments made by Fed Chair Jerome Powell for clues about the central bank's path over the remainder of the year.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 1 Nov. 2023
  • In this scenario, residents could walk into, say, the council chambers at city hall only to find no one at the dais and the policymakers on a monitor on the wall.
    — Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial, The Mercury News, 4 June 2024
  • But the Fed’s monetary policymakers don’t seem to think that will happen this summer.
    — Holden Lewis, oregonlive, 6 July 2023
  • Now, one of the country’s biggest policymakers is fed up with its sickly image.
    — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Last year, politicians and policymakers around the world also grappled to make sense of how AI will fit into society.
    — David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Much of the demand likely has something to do with what's known as the basis trade, a leveraged bet in short-term Treasury markets that has raised concerns among policymakers.
    — WSJ, 13 Sep. 2023
  • One of the biggest questions facing policymakers is what impact China’s sluggish economy will have on the rest of the world.
    — Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2023
  • That month, central bank policymakers agreed to lower the Fed’s benchmark federal funds rate by a full percentage point, to a range of zero to 0.25%.
    — Paul Davidson, The Courier-Journal, 19 Sep. 2024
  • But the taxation of tips has been the subject of a lot of debate for a long time, mostly because policymakers thought that tipped workers were skipping out on their real tax burden.
    — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
  • How policymakers should respond depends on whether the capabilities gap between open and closed models is shrinking or widening.
    — Tharin Pillay, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024

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