footmen

plural of footman

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Noun
  • Individuals who begin to see themselves as fathers, mothers, believers, mentors, or servants often become less attached to the identities that contributed to their criminal behavior in the first place.
    Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • Commissioner Tisch has already shown a real commitment to cracking down on corruption and ensuring that the public servants in the NYPD are held to the highest standards.
    Gloria Pazmino, CNN Money, 24 June 2026
Noun
  • The young women and their cavaliers headed to L’Arc, a nightclub in Paris situated near the Shangri-La; there, the group continued their celebrations some hours later.
    Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 1 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Solo travelers might ask their butlers for assistance securing card game players, shore outing buddies, or tablemates for dinner.
    Janice Wald Henderson, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 June 2026
  • The Four-Star hotel offers elegant rooms and attentive butlers to fill your every need, including providing cribs, high chairs and play pens.
    Katie Lara, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
Noun
  • Barton’s pseudo-scholarship furnished Christian nationalists with valuable ammunition, but the movement needed foot soldiers.
    Michael Luo, New Yorker, 14 June 2026
  • The result is child foot soldiers hired as hitmen, becoming both the perpetrators of crime and the victims of criminals.
    ABC News, ABC News, 12 June 2026
Noun
  • But to be fair, this phenomenon isn’t universal among domestics.
    Byron Hurd, The Drive, 3 June 2026
  • Women worked as domestics; men served as unskilled laborers, canal diggers and later as mill workers across the river.
    Paula Kane, The Conversation, 13 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Five Israeli soldiers have been killed since the truce.
    Wafaa Shurafa, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2026
  • All the other Buzz toys follow suit, dropping into the playground like soldiers descending into battle, and the rest of the kids all excitedly grab one to play with.
    Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 20 June 2026
Noun
  • After Wally springs her from the Shaw's clutches, the group manages to lure the couple and some of their lackeys into the makeshift particle accelerator trap that former engineer Sam built out of old cathode-ray tube TVs.
    Megan McCluskey, Time, 21 May 2026
  • Trump wants Americans to believe that his opponents are of this ilk, with his lackeys casting activists as domestic terrorists for merely showing up to protests.
    Gustavo Arellano, Houston Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Corporate raiders became the enforcers.
    Steve Denning, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026
  • For decades, tomb raiders have pillaged sites across the country, selling them on the black market.
    Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Money, 19 June 2026
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“Footmen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/footmen. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.

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