Watergate
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5.3
- proper noun
- /ˈwɔːtərɡeɪt/
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Watergate
- But the new culture that Watergate helped to create concluded that the system was deficient.
- Watergate prosecutor
- the Watergate scandal
- Nixon and Watergate
Stuff like this is what Nixons White House tried to do with the FBI and CIA throughout Watergate.
- Stuff like this is what Nixons White House tried to do with the FBI and CIA throughout Watergate.
- If we reflect back to the Watergate era, the Republicans wanted Nixon gone, right?
- And I tried to make Watergate very, very simple.
- And it was at the height of like Watergate and people hating America.
- They didn't really get public until later that year when the group was fasting for Nixon during Watergate.
Examples
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The 18 and a half missing minutes of the Watergate tapes.
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President Nixon announced he'll address the nation on Watergate... ...within the next few days.
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Have you been following this Watergate thing?
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If we pull this off, it makes Watergate look like kid's stuff.
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After the election, the Watergate scandal gradually overwhelmed the Nixon White House.
Academic text (1991) -
Presidential counsel John Dean testified before the Senate Watergate Committee that the scandal reaches to the highest levels...
Fiction book (1995) -
Judge John Sirica today sentenced the Watergate burglars to terms ranging up to forty years...
Fiction book (1995) -
The Watergate scandal led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.
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Many books have been written about the impact of the Watergate affair on American politics.
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Historians often cite the Watergate incident as a turning point in U.S. political history.
Synonyms
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3.9
A 1970s US political event where leaders broke the law and the president resigned
Compounds
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3.9
A 1970s US political event where leaders broke the law and the president resigned
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Watergate comes from the name of a Washington D.C. office and apartment complex, the Watergate, where a break-in started a huge 1970s political scandal. So Watergate now refers to that specific scandal and the crimes that forced President Nixon to resign.