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single-issue

[sing-guhl-ish-oo]

adjective

  1. pertaining or devoted to one public issue only, especially a political one.

    single-issue voters.



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But it was slavery that increasingly made the Democrats a nearly single-issue party.

From Salon

There are also single-issue voters who ignored all of the other, much more important issues regarding the future of American democracy and our rights and freedoms.

From Salon

Similarly, National Review continues to open its pages to single-issue wing nuts from the depths of the far-right fever swamps, including psychotic anti-IVF Catholics, sweaty homeschooling advocates, and Armond White, the veteran whack-job film critic who, in a recent review, asserted that Moana 2 was a trans allegory.

From Slate

These have manifested in publishers’ proclamations that cheap single-issue comic books are a thing of the past, as well as in a panic-sales spike for a new Brian K. Vaughan graphic novel that occurred just before the original tariffs were set to go into effect in February.

From Slate

Trump’s rise showed many progressive white women the error in approaching feminism as a narrow, single-issue movement having to do with gender alone.

From Slate

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