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Recent Examples of blackleg
Herding Sheep with Bill There was no contradicting his calendar
Of superstitions – the feast of some saint or other
The sheep had to be herded off the mountain,
Culled and counted, dipped and
Doctored with shots for blackleg.
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Hartford Courant, courant.com, 11 Mar. 2018
Hartford Courant, courant.com, 11 Mar. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blackleg
Noun
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Always eyeing the horizon for the next easy buck, like a leering obese card sharp with an orange comb over on a steamboat chugging down the Mississippi, Trump appears unsatisfied with his crypto scams and international resort extortions.—
Guy Lawson,
Rolling Stone,
22 June 2025
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And there is possibly no American actor more suited than Mr. Mays to shuffling through the dozens of players in Dickens’s celebrated tale with the ease of a cardsharp.—
Charles Isherwood,
WSJ,
23 Nov. 2022
Noun
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How does history distinguish knaves from legendary figures?—
W.E. Gutman,
Sun Sentinel,
8 July 2025
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The modern health insurer is regarded as either a knave or a pawn and is seldom regarded as a knight.—
Sachin H. Jain,
Forbes,
20 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Trump ‘looking at’ pardoning Gretchen Whitmer kidnap plotters | RISING Niall Stanage and Amber Duke discuss President Trump considering pardoning defendants in Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer(D)’s kidnapping.—
The Hill,
The Hill,
30 May 2025
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The plotters have agreed that a leadership committee consisting of a few high-ranking officials would take over running the country and negotiate a deal with the United States to stop the Israeli attacks.—
Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
22 June 2025
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“Blackleg.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blackleg. Accessed 3 Aug. 2025.
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