gavel-to-gavel
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of gavel-to-gavel
First recorded in 1970–75
Example Sentences
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Senate to urge streaming companies to begin offering customers the privately funded television service, which has provided nonpartisan gavel-to-gavel television coverage of congressional hearings and roll call votes for decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2025
But the real problems began in 1973, when the service broadcast gavel-to-gavel prime-time coverage of the Watergate hearings, earning the enmity of President Richard Nixon.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2025
Mr. Bensky’s gavel-to-gavel coverage of the congressional Iran-contra hearings of 1987 put the Pacifica network on the map, earning him a prestigious Polk Award for radio reporting.
From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2024
As an analyst on Court TV during the trial, Pope said today’s gavel-to-gavel coverage can help viewers reach their own conclusions and understand the legal system’s “positives” and its “warts.”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 1, 2023
For the Watergate hearings, the three major networks rotated daily, gavel-to-gavel coverage.
From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2022
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