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a gangster and his stooges He's just a stooge for the oil industry.Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
Billionaires are buying and dismembering local papers across the country, and now Sinclair Broadcast Group, thanks to Trump's FCC stooge Ajit Pai, is poised to control local news stations for 72 percent of the country. — Luke Darby, GQ, "Trump Has the Most Success Wherever People Read the Least News," 9 Apr. 2018 Despite what could be a thankless role as a government stooge, he more than keeps up with the cogs turning around him. — Karen Han, Vox, "Homecoming, starring Julia Roberts, is simpler than it appears — and a pleasure to watch," 2 Nov. 2018 North Korea still considers South Korea an American stooge. — Choe Sang-hun, New York Times, "North Korea’s Sudden Shift Puts South’s Leader on the Spot," 17 May 2018 By contrast, Samuel may be a stooge, a tool and a deeply misguided individual, but Pattinson is nonetheless the movie’s most surprising, off-kilter and delightful element. — Justin Chang, latimes.com, "Robert Pattinson delights in the sly, archly comic western 'Damsel'," 21 June 2018 Hard to believe this is America .. watch yet another Trump stooge. — Nicole Darrah, Fox News, "MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski unloads on 'cowardly' Nielsen over briefing 'full of lies'," 18 June 2018 On March 14, 2017, Conservative Review, a Web site that opposed the Iran deal, published an article portraying Nowrouzzadeh as a traitorous stooge. — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, "Trump vs. the “Deep State”," 14 May 2018 Alan Dershowitz, a Fox News legal analyst and frequent Trump stooge, scolded Hannity during his own show on Monday night, reasoning that Hannity's silence, at the very least, creates the appearance of impropriety. — Jay Willis, GQ, "Fox News Was Always Going to Enable Sean Hannity," 18 Apr. 2018 Most of the candidates are familiar Kremlin stooges, such as far-right hooligan Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who has run in all but one of the country’s post-Soviet presidential elections, and communist Pavel Grudinin, who runs a farm named after Lenin. — Chris Miller, WSJ, "Is Putin Repeating the Mistakes of Brezhnev?," 9 Mar. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'stooge.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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