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  • noun Alternative spelling of big tent.

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Examples

  • The casting is pluralistic, and everyone's both celebrating herself and the idea of big-tent crossover stardom, as if Burnett had not imported this programming format from Holland but instead hired Walt Whitman and Lady Gaga to collaborate on a treatment.

    Slate Magazine Troy Patterson 2011

  • When someone, especially a leader in the party, sends out what can only be described as a racist email, it undercuts the message me, Terrance and other big-tent Republicans are trying to craft.

    One last comment on email-gate, race and the Republican Party 2010

  • Easton says that calling Obama a socialist is something that Gingrich may think is a "big idea, but it's not a big-tent idea."

    TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads Jason Linkins 2011

  • Inside the church, officials expressed some optimism that candidacies by both Romney and Huntsman could help portray Mormonism as a big-tent religion, where different views and levels of devoutness are tolerated.

    Let t h e ir games b e gin 2011

  • Easton says that calling Obama a socialist is something that Gingrich may think is a "big idea, but it's not a big-tent idea."

    TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads Jason Linkins 2011

  • The Democrats is the real big-tent Party ... look at all the differing opinions the hold on the health care reform ... and they are still allowed to remain in the Party!

    RNC resolution won't 'handcuff' Steele, co-sponsor says 2009

  • Democrats are the self-proclaimed tolerant and big-tent party PROTECTING THE CITIZENS from the greedy and evil white men.

    McCain campaign adviser pushes back on Palin book 2009

  • He could have galvanised the great majority that have been cheated by an overweening super-class but thought it electorally necessary to mimic the Tory myth of the undifferentiated big-tent "middle".

    Money busts the convenient myth that social class is dead | Polly Toynbee 2011

  • Ronald Reagan himself would be immediately called a "liberal socialist marxist" and thrown out the party for his big-tent talk.

    RNC resolution won't 'handcuff' Steele, co-sponsor says 2009

  • His enterprise provides a model of a big-tent conservatism supported by multiple and competing principles: limited government, free markets, traditional morality and strong national defense.

    The Myth of Conservative Purity Peter Berkowitz 2011

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