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Recent Examples of hatchet job
This hatchet job does not follow the rules of law, has no analysis or actual auditing done to support actions and tramples on the rights of government employees.
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Letters To The Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2025
Neither hagiography nor hatchet job, the movie casts an understanding eye on a once-infamous musical artist who weathered dizzying highs and devastating lows.
—Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2024
This hatchet job does not follow the rules of law, has no analysis or actual auditing done to support actions and tramples on the rights of government employees.
—Letters To The Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2025
Neither hagiography nor hatchet job, the movie casts an understanding eye on a once-infamous musical artist who weathered dizzying highs and devastating lows.
—Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2024
No amount of mainstream media hatchet jobs can disguise those optics.
—David Medina, Hartford Courant, 18 Nov. 2024
But the most shameless is Informer, a scandal sheet that features hatchet jobs and images of buxom women.
—Robert F. Worth, New York Times, 3 May 2023
Later, the scene is recut as a hatchet job on social media that leads to Tár’s downfall.
—Jordan Riefe, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2023
Trump supporters say the potential prosecution is a politically motivated hatchet job disconnected from the law.
—Joseph Morton, Dallas News, 22 Mar. 2023
Letters To The Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2025
Neither hagiography nor hatchet job, the movie casts an understanding eye on a once-infamous musical artist who weathered dizzying highs and devastating lows.
—Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2024
This hatchet job does not follow the rules of law, has no analysis or actual auditing done to support actions and tramples on the rights of government employees.
—Letters To The Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2025
Neither hagiography nor hatchet job, the movie casts an understanding eye on a once-infamous musical artist who weathered dizzying highs and devastating lows.
—Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2024
No amount of mainstream media hatchet jobs can disguise those optics.
—David Medina, Hartford Courant, 18 Nov. 2024
But the most shameless is Informer, a scandal sheet that features hatchet jobs and images of buxom women.
—Robert F. Worth, New York Times, 3 May 2023
Later, the scene is recut as a hatchet job on social media that leads to Tár’s downfall.
—Jordan Riefe, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2023
Trump supporters say the potential prosecution is a politically motivated hatchet job disconnected from the law.
—Joseph Morton, Dallas News, 22 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hatchet job
Noun
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Outreach to the Jewish community Mamdani has faced some pushback, given New York's large Jewish population, over his history of comments and activism opposing Israel, including his criticism of Israel over the war in Gaza.—
Rachel Scott,
ABC News,
26 June 2025
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Asked to comment on the violence near the food sites and criticism around the group, Segal defended the organization.—
Daniel Estrin,
NPR,
26 June 2025
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Russia has stepped up attacks on Ukraine despite talks between the two countries in Istanbul, which were supposed to lead to a ceasefire.—
Joanna Kakissis,
NPR,
29 June 2025
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Sunday’s attacks follow Russian President Vladimir Putin’s comments two days ago that Moscow is ready for a fresh round of direct peace talks in Istanbul.—
Volodymyr Yurchuk,
Chicago Tribune,
29 June 2025
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Still, for all the outspoken denunciation, individual use of AI has rapidly become routine.—
Sheldon Pearce,
NPR,
17 June 2025
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Among the quicker and more vigorous denunciations was Saudi Arabia’s.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
13 June 2025
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The opposition Labour Party, as well as the Green Party, criticized the suspensions as disproportionate, with the Labour Party proposing censure instead.—
Julia Zhong,
NBC news,
5 June 2025
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The censure so far has cost her a chance to vote on the state's biannual budget and propose a bill to expand access to mental health resources for residents.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
22 Apr. 2025
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Court papers say the defendant, Farrukh Ali, conspired with at least 41 substance abuse clinics to bill the state for hundreds of millions of dollars for substance abuse services that were never provided, not provided as billed or were medically unnecessary.—
Ryan Lucas,
NPR,
30 June 2025
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President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans say the bill would cut waste, fraud and abuse from Medicaid, providing coverage only to those who truly need it.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
30 June 2025
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Violating the terms of a gang injunction could land someone in contempt of court, a misdemeanor that carries up to a six-month sentence.—
Sean Emery,
Oc Register,
24 June 2025
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And to date, the Republican majority, which has subpoena power, which has the ability to move bills to the floor, which has the ability to hold administration officials in contempt, has shown precisely zero interest in doing that.—
Michel Martin,
NPR,
24 June 2025
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Internet viewers have gone wild for a fruit-loving cat not shy about sharing his disdain for bananas.—
Rachael O'Connor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 June 2025
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Trump’s disdain for multilateralism is also imperiling the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.—
KORI SCHAKE,
Foreign Affairs,
24 June 2025
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Douglas McCarthy, the vocalist who hectored anarchic invective with EBM innovators Nitzer Ebb and who joined Depeche Mode keyboardist Alan Wilder’s Recoil side project, died Wednesday at the age of 58.—
Kory Grow,
Rolling Stone,
12 June 2025
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His tommy-gun dialogue, much of it laced with withering invective and punctuated with profanity, started a shift in the language of both theater and movies in this country.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Apr. 2025
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“Hatchet job.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hatchet%20job. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.
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