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Recent Examples of enforcer
But even with that, the Broncos saw him as a priority free agent in the offseason — a player who could be an enforcer alongside Jones, and add depth to a safety corps that showed cracks at times last season.
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Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 24 July 2025
And seems certain to approve Miami’s move to sign Rodrigo de Paul as Messi’s midfield enforcer, a loan with a purchase option that may technically conform to MLS roster rules but certainly not their spirit.
—Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025
Reuniting with his godson (Finn), a streetwise enforcer entangled with a powerful crime syndicate, the two hatch a high-stakes heist in a desperate bid to escape the grip of a ruthless mob boss (Gooding Jr.).
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 21 July 2025
An OpenAI executive testified in April that the company would be interested in buying Chrome if antitrust enforcers succeeded in forcing the sale.
—Kenrick Cai, USA Today, 11 July 2025
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Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 24 July 2025
And seems certain to approve Miami’s move to sign Rodrigo de Paul as Messi’s midfield enforcer, a loan with a purchase option that may technically conform to MLS roster rules but certainly not their spirit.
—Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025
Reuniting with his godson (Finn), a streetwise enforcer entangled with a powerful crime syndicate, the two hatch a high-stakes heist in a desperate bid to escape the grip of a ruthless mob boss (Gooding Jr.).
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 21 July 2025
An OpenAI executive testified in April that the company would be interested in buying Chrome if antitrust enforcers succeeded in forcing the sale.
—Kenrick Cai, USA Today, 11 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for enforcer
Noun
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By several accounts, Xi was a ferocious disciplinarian.—
Nicholas Creel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 June 2025
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He was variously depicted as both a strict disciplinarian and also an emotionally intelligent father figure to the players.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
1 June 2025
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At least being a thug is more lucrative than being a poet.—
Joan MacDonald,
Forbes.com,
2 Aug. 2025
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According to reporting from the Clermont Sun, Fike tweeted ‘#thug the new n word’ in April 2015 and ‘Thug life = thug treatment = no pity from me’ in July 2019.—
James Wilkins,
The Orlando Sentinel,
29 July 2025
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Provide coaching and mentorship so managers become inspiring guides rather than just taskmasters.—
Melanie Hughes,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2025
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On July 13, taskmaster Saturn will station retrograde in Aries, presenting the opportunity to recalibrate and refocus.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
12 July 2025
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The book was about how his father chose conventional family values over the life of a gangster.—
Leonard Greene,
New York Daily News,
2 Aug. 2025
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That audio clip has been shared some 60,000 times on TikTok, often by Venezuelans ridiculing the notion that everybody from their country is a gangster.—
ProPublica,
ProPublica,
23 July 2025
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He was later toppled by a military coup in 1966, which was allegedly backed by the CIA, after he was cast as a dictator.—
Diana Lodderhose,
Deadline,
4 Aug. 2025
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The retiring wrestler plays an ex-Special Forces operative who takes a gig escorting a journalist into the jungles of South America to interview a dictator.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
1 Aug. 2025
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Themes will include a decaying conservatory, a vampire masquerade ball, 1920s mobsters amid radioactive cargo and a cat lady.—
Dewayne Bevil,
The Orlando Sentinel,
13 Aug. 2025
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From playing Italian mobsters to Shakespeare, Matthew and Nathanael Vaky view what’s happening in the United States with a mix of humor, frustration and hope.—
Imani Cruzen,
Twin Cities,
2 Aug. 2025
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President Trump is, once again, testing the limits of his power, hoping to intimidate other cities into submission to his every vengeful whim by making the once unimaginable—an American tyrant ordering a military occupation of our own capital—a terrifying reality.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Aug. 2025
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Jack Nicholson’s McMurphy, a swaggering trickster figure, clashes with the institution’s quiet tyrant, Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher), in a battle not just of wills, but of worldviews: chaos versus order, freedom versus conformity.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
29 July 2025
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In a police photograph, Lansky stood next to racketeer Charles (Lucky) Luciano.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
3 Apr. 2025
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In the other corner: Vito Genovese, Costello’s childhood friend and fellow racketeer, who had to leave town long ago because of a thing, and has now come home to resume his place in the Mafia hierarchy.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
20 Mar. 2025
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“Enforcer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enforcer. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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