Recent Examples on the WebBut the most shameless is Informer, a scandal sheet that features hatchet jobs and images of buxom women.—Robert F. Worth, New York Times, 3 May 2023 Later, the scene is recut as a hatchet job on social media that leads to Tár’s downfall.—Jordan Riefe, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2023 In other words, the book is not a hatchet job.—John Tamny, Forbes, 27 May 2021 Trump supporters say the potential prosecution is a politically motivated hatchet job disconnected from the law.—Joseph Morton, Dallas News, 22 Mar. 2023 Rumor has it that someone is writing a book about her life, which will be a hatchet job.—Lincee Ray, EW.com, 9 Nov. 2022 Rick Reilly’s hatchet job in Sports Illustrated, painting Bo as a coward, was merely the most infamous and casually vicious of the genre.—al, 27 Oct. 2022 That was quite the hatchet job Matt Brennan did on Ellen DeGeneres.—Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2022 And yet, having said all that, the Grassley report has the appearance of a partisan hatchet job on a nomination by a Democratic president.—Steve Lopezcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2022
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