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Recent Examples of crony Texas Republicans have completely surrendered our state to Trump and his billionaire cronies, at the expense of selling out their constituents and Latino voters in South Texas. Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 July 2025 Dumas introduced Huff to two of his closest cronies, both of whom had served at Fort Bragg. Seth Harp, Rolling Stone, 28 July 2025 Most of the main members of the Boys — Hughie (Jack Quaid), MM (Laz Alonso), Frenchie (Tomer Capone), and Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara) — were all captured by Homelander's supe cronies at the end of season 4. EW.com, 26 July 2025 At the center of the scheme was a plan to funnel a total of $1.3 million in do-nothing contracts to Madigan’s 13th Ward cronies. Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for crony
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crony
Noun
  • One of Mendoza’s associates was waiting for them.
    ProPublica, ProPublica, 13 Sep. 2025
  • In 1951, Husseini’s associates murdered one of his foremost rivals, King Abdullah of Jordan.
    Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Lance Suaste, a junior at the university, was walking past the nearby Mountain Run apartments, having just been dropped off after spending the day at a friend’s house.
    N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The conflict between Israel and Palestine was dividing friends, sparking tensions, and fueling rising acts of hostility.
    Rchin Bari, Boston Herald, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Beat overcommitment syndrome, get the right things done, and build real influence with your colleagues up, down, sideways, and diagonal—all over the organization chart.
    Bruce Tulgan, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • In its history, Everybody Loves Raymond, created by Romano and Philip Rosenthal, received 15 Emmys and 69 total nominations, including for Romano, Garrett, and their colleagues Patricia Heaton, and Peter Boyle.
    Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • That leaves Vivas, who cofounded an earlier startup with AppLovin’s CEO Adam Foroughi and invested early in his buddy’s latest venture, as one of three billionaires from the company on this year’s list (all of them newcomers).
    Thomas Gallagher, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • This buddy comedy is perfect for dinosaur fans and tells an inspirational tale about friendship.
    Sydni Ellis, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Prosecutors revealed that after gunning down Heym, Stacey and his accomplice, Roderick Derrick Crawford, 21, boarded the train and made their exit at the transit center.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Meanwhile, Erica Ruth Hampton, who was working as a bartender at Born’s, is charged with aiding an offender by being an accomplice after the fact.
    Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Friends of mine received unwanted explicit snaps from male peers, some were contacted by complete strangers, and many were bullied on the platform.
    Annabelle Canela, Parents, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Carman Chan, founder of Click Ventures, a single-family office, similarly noted that many of her family office peers who set up businesses in Singapore are relocating back to Hong Kong.
    Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • During the purges of the late 1930s, a new generation of young and ambitious politicians and officials quickly arrived to take the places of Stalin’s purged comrades.
    ANDREI KOLESNIKOV, Foreign Affairs, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Garraty is forced to watch several of his comrades' executions while fighting for his own life with a gun to his head.
    Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Sep. 2025

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“Crony.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crony. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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