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Recent Examples of hatchet man
The White House and its hatchet men attacking culture are coming for the artists, curators, museum directors, docents, writers, and editors who value freedom and liberation and Black history and women’s history and ideas and progress.
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Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Musk’s extracurricular gig as President Donald Trump’s hatchet man has turned the Tesla brand — once a favorite among upwardly mobile lefties — into a symbol of America’s right wing.
—Allison Morrow, CNN, 25 Mar. 2025
Meanwhile, there have been mass firings at the FBI, reportedly instigated by Trump hatchet man Kash Patel, who awaits Senate confirmation to head the FBI.
—Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel Editorial Boards, Orlando Sentinel, 21 Feb. 2025
Back home, more pink slips for federal employees go out and the scrutiny of Elon Musk's role as the hatchet man for those agencies intensifies.
—CBS News, 16 Feb. 2025
Musician and producer Grimes made a rare comment involving her ex-partner and father to her three kids, Elon Musk, after their 4-year-old son appeared alongside the tech mogul turned government hatchet man at the White House on Wednesday.
—Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Feb. 2025
In the twenty-tens, the brothers took up solo careers; Malice converted to Christianity (becoming No Malice), as Pusha T became a hatchet man for Kanye West.
—The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2023
Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Musk’s extracurricular gig as President Donald Trump’s hatchet man has turned the Tesla brand — once a favorite among upwardly mobile lefties — into a symbol of America’s right wing.
—Allison Morrow, CNN, 25 Mar. 2025
Meanwhile, there have been mass firings at the FBI, reportedly instigated by Trump hatchet man Kash Patel, who awaits Senate confirmation to head the FBI.
—Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel Editorial Boards, Orlando Sentinel, 21 Feb. 2025
Back home, more pink slips for federal employees go out and the scrutiny of Elon Musk's role as the hatchet man for those agencies intensifies.
—CBS News, 16 Feb. 2025
Musician and producer Grimes made a rare comment involving her ex-partner and father to her three kids, Elon Musk, after their 4-year-old son appeared alongside the tech mogul turned government hatchet man at the White House on Wednesday.
—Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Feb. 2025
In the twenty-tens, the brothers took up solo careers; Malice converted to Christianity (becoming No Malice), as Pusha T became a hatchet man for Kanye West.
—The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hatchet man
Noun
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Who is Brendan Carr? Carr is a long-serving member of the FCC who has become an increasingly visible attack dog for the Trump administration this year.—
Brian Stelter,
CNN Money,
18 Sep. 2025
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Pulte, who was appointed to lead the FHFA by Trump, has acted as an attack dog on the president’s behalf against the Fed, Fed Chair Jerome Powell and Cook in recent weeks.—
Dan Mangan,
CNBC,
29 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The only difference is Read had legal pit bulls on her side who saw the injustice and pounced.—
Boston Herald editorial staff,
Boston Herald,
29 Sep. 2025
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In March, a 6-month-old girl was killed by her family's pit bull in her Alabaster home.—
Erin Clack,
PEOPLE,
27 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Now with celebrity status as a bad boy, Wale is looking for a ghostwriter to pen his memoir.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
31 Aug. 2025
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Others include Chicago native Elijah Bennett, a film graduate and ghostwriter who describes himself as a storyteller.—
Andy Meek,
Forbes.com,
26 Aug. 2025
Noun
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In The Lion in the Living Room, Abigail Tucker reminds that our ancestors were certainly prey for lions and leopards and tigers.—
Rebecca van Laer
September 30,
Literary Hub,
30 Sep. 2025
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Gucci’s tiger-print shearling jacket was the epitome of glamour and attitude, an instant statement piece.—
Samantha Conti,
Footwear News,
29 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Powering the portable scribbler is 1.7-GHz dual-core processing supported by 2 GB of RAM and 64 GB of internal storage.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
8 Sep. 2025
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All remaining scribblers should lay down their squibs and come out, squinting, arms aloft in surrender.—
Jayson Greene,
Time,
17 June 2025
Noun
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Reese Witherspoon just co-signed my favorite petite fashion hack for fall.—
Jamie Allison Sanders,
PEOPLE,
1 Oct. 2025
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The worst example of it was Cousins, an NHL veteran assured of a roster spot with the Senators, giving Ivan Demidov a two-handed hack on the wrist while his team was on a breakaway.—
Arpon Basu,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Royal biographer Penny Junor also compared Kate to Philip in an interview with the Daily Mail.—
Jason Pham,
StyleCaster,
6 Sep. 2025
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That changes when Nile Jarvis (Matthew Rhys) — a real estate magnate suspected of killing his first wife — moves in next door and convinces Aggie to be his biographer.—
Kristen Baldwin,
Entertainment Weekly,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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An enterprise cloud identity expert, multi-exit serial entrepreneur and coauthor of the SAML SSO standard.—
Eric Olden,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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But federal health officials do not intend to submit the final report to Congress as planned, says Tim Naimi, MD, MPH, a study coauthor and director of the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research at the University of Victoria in British Columbia.—
Tom Gavin,
EverydayHealth.com,
12 Sep. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Hatchet man.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hatchet%20man. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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