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Recent Examples of ambulance chaser
Maybe their ambulance chasers can prevail against the dive bars of Canton, but Karen should skate.
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Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 6 Aug. 2025
In the case of Jay-Z, the billionaire has come out swinging against attorney Tony Buzbee, branding him an ambulance chaser and calling him a 1-800 lawyer.
—Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2025
My heart and support goes out to true victims in the world, who have to watch how their life story is dressed in costume for profitability by this ambulance chaser in a cheap suit.
—Shannon Power, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
My heart and support goes out to the true victims in the world, who have to watch how their life story is dressed in costume for profitability by this ambulance chaser in a cheap suit.
—Jordana Comiter, People.com, 9 Dec. 2024
This results in people who use astrology as an excuse to be an ambulance chaser or to create viral, fear-mongering social media content.
—Diana Rose Harper, Wired, 5 Jan. 2022
On the one hand, people have referred to you as Black America’s attorney general, helping David fight Goliath, while on the other, critics have called you an opportunist or ambulance chaser.
—Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2020
Corporations portrayed tort lawyers as ambulance chasers seeking to make a buck through frivolous litigation.
—Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 11 Nov. 2019
Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 6 Aug. 2025
In the case of Jay-Z, the billionaire has come out swinging against attorney Tony Buzbee, branding him an ambulance chaser and calling him a 1-800 lawyer.
—Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2025
My heart and support goes out to true victims in the world, who have to watch how their life story is dressed in costume for profitability by this ambulance chaser in a cheap suit.
—Shannon Power, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
My heart and support goes out to the true victims in the world, who have to watch how their life story is dressed in costume for profitability by this ambulance chaser in a cheap suit.
—Jordana Comiter, People.com, 9 Dec. 2024
This results in people who use astrology as an excuse to be an ambulance chaser or to create viral, fear-mongering social media content.
—Diana Rose Harper, Wired, 5 Jan. 2022
On the one hand, people have referred to you as Black America’s attorney general, helping David fight Goliath, while on the other, critics have called you an opportunist or ambulance chaser.
—Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2020
Corporations portrayed tort lawyers as ambulance chasers seeking to make a buck through frivolous litigation.
—Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 11 Nov. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ambulance chaser
Noun
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Despite lacking any legal education or experience, Routh dismissed his lawyers earlier this year and intends to defend himself at trial.—
Peter Charalambous,
ABC News,
11 Sep. 2025
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The actress revels in every episode as a septuagenarian lawyer returning to the workforce at a high-profile New York firm with a Southern accent and a baby boomer sensibility.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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He was released in 2021 after serving nearly three years because a previous district attorney had made a non-prosecution agreement with Cosby in exchange for his testimony in a civil case against him.—
Jeremy Helligar,
People.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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As part of his agreement with prosecutors, Wright pleaded guilty in exchange for having his original charge of malice murder reduced to second-degree murder and one of two counts of first-degree cruelty to children reduced to second-degree, according to the district attorney.—
KC Baker,
PEOPLE,
9 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Thompson, the Latah County prosecuting attorney, led the case.—
Michael Ruiz,
FOXNews.com,
20 Aug. 2025
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For example, the average starting salary for a prosecuting attorney is around $57,000 per year.—
Adam S. Minsky,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
Noun
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At least one former candidate – Kansas City attorney Stacy Lake, who lost to White in the Democratic primary for County Executive in 2022 – has announced plans to run at that point.—
Ilana Arougheti,
Kansas City Star,
10 Sep. 2025
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Another of Soliman’s attorneys interrupted when the immigration officer said the Brotherhood had been a Tier III group since 2012.—
Hannah Allam,
ProPublica,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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To demonstrate that point in a video, a researcher told a robot arm to put a bunch of plastic grapes into a clear Tupperware container, then proceeded to shift three containers around on the table in an approximation of a shyster’s shell game.—
Eliza Strickland,
IEEE Spectrum,
12 Mar. 2025
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Holmes is another shyster whose story has been dissected in several documentaries and in dramatizations like Hulu’s The Dropout, but Gibney brings specific insights and a fresh perspective to this truly unbelievable story.—
Declan Gallagher,
EW.com,
31 July 2024
Noun
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Larsen was one of the few women in Hamilton County to work as a trial lawyer in the 1970s.—
Jeff Suess,
The Enquirer,
21 Aug. 2025
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Gerry Spence, the fringe jacket-wearing trial lawyer from Wyoming known for a string of major court wins starting with a multimillion-dollar judgment against a plutonium processor in the landmark Karen Silkwood case, has died.—
Nino Paoli,
Fortune,
15 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Over the past two months, Texans have used green ribbons with bows to commemorate the lives lost in the July 4 Hill Country flooding, which killed more than 100 people, including more than two dozen girls and counselors from Camp Mystic in Hunt.—
Matthew Adams,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
8 Sep. 2025
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White House senior counselor for trade and manufacturing Peter Navarro speaks to reporters outside of the West Wing of the White House on August 21, 2025 in Washington, DC.—
Peter Aitken,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Hartley will be joined this fall only by returning series regular Fiona Rene, who continues to play legal eagle Reenie Green.—
Ryan Schwartz,
TVLine,
25 Aug. 2025
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That’s a fairly wide net in alerting Waukegan legal eagles of what the basis of any lawsuit may entail.—
Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
21 May 2025
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“Ambulance chaser.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ambulance%20chaser. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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