Watergate
- noun
- /ˈwɔːtərɡeɪt/
- Literature
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- The whole echo of Watergate is very strong here.
So there's a lot of like, you know, it's kind of a tongue in cheek Watergate expose, but you know what I mean?
- So there's a lot of like, you know, it's kind of a tongue in cheek Watergate expose, but you know what I mean?
- Glomming onto some small nitpick, this appears to be on par, if not far exceeding what happened with Watergate.
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And it says with a new forward on what Watergate means today, I'll bite.
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We respected the presidency as a place of honor until the shock of watergate.
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I think the entire post Watergate micro bureaucratization of politics has been a disaster.
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Everybody knows that Republicans played a key role in the Watergate scandal, which looks like total child's play compared to what we're seeing right now.
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As great as we've seen since Watergate, you can't stop citizens from coming together and spending money to talk about politics.
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The Watergate scandal revealed serious abuses of power in the U.S. government.
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Many politicians today are often compared to the figures involved in Watergate.
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The investigation into Watergate changed the way Americans view their leaders.
Synonyms
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3.0
Gossip about people's private lives that embarrasses them
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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
How Serious
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Watergate also started a language habit: because that scandal was so famous, people began adding -gate to other words to mean 'a scandal' about something. So calling a story a 'Watergate' can mean it is a serious political scandal like the first one.