Example Sentences

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One example is “One Battle After Another,” Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film that is loosely based on Thomas Pynchon’s post-Watergate novel “Vineland.”

From Salon • Jan. 1, 2026

Then, in the ’60s and ’70s, the post-Watergate era, news organizations made a deliberate and, some would argue, commercial decision to embrace these norms of objectivity, independence, and serving the public sphere.

From Slate • Jun. 3, 2025

Sen. Paul Simon, co-authored by then-first-term state Sen. Barack Obama and signed by Republican Gov. Jim Edgar, the Gift Ban Act was the first major ethics reform in Illinois since post-Watergate campaign-finance disclosure laws.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 14, 2023

Asked if he would pledge, regardless of his views on what the law may technically allow presidents to do, to obey the post-Watergate norm, Mr. Ramaswamy replied: “As a general norm, yes.”

From New York Times • Jun. 21, 2023

In the 1970s, Richard Nixon sought refuge post-Watergate in his beachfront mansion in San Clemente, known as the “Western White House.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2022