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US
/ˈwɑtɝˌɡeɪt, ˈwɔtɝˌɡeɪt/
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NOUN
- a political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice; led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974
How To Use Watergate In A Sentence
- Some cognac with a nutty finish may be leisurely consumed at her Watergate apartment.
- In the Watergate scandal, obstruction of justice was number one in the articles of impeachment approved by the House Judiciary Committee.
- If Nixon had survived the "third-rate burglary" at the Watergate, how long would his enemies list have grown, and how emboldened would he have become in spying on political rivals? News industry's depression has spillover implications
- And Nixon in '73 was already being entoiled in the Watergate scandal. CNN Transcript Jun 21, 2005
- Nixon was forced to resign when evidence of his involvement in Watergate cover-up emerges.
- The tide swept most of the boxes ashore along the beach near York Watergate. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
- But the comradery wasn't total: Flug's findings for Kennedy led directly to creation of the Senate Watergate Committee, also known as the Ervin Committee. Barry Sussman: Kenneth Dahlberg's Role in Watergate
- I dived into the Watergate, hoping to catch a waterman who would row me back here to the Tower, but there were no boats waiting. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
- Remember when the Washington Post was vilipended and qualified as a gossip column when it published the first article about the Watergate?
- Then you had Watergate, so there was turbulence and all this sort of sense of the country kind of roiling all the time. CNN Transcript Jan 2, 2007