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Recent Examples of hireling To pretend otherwise in the year 2024 is all-but to out oneself as a hireling. Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 12 Feb. 2024 No refuge could save the hireling and slave. Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com, 30 June 2021 Neither should some assistant DA hireling be allowed to forgo appropriate punishment under state law. Star Tribune, 8 Dec. 2020 Like Sade, Epstein had hirelings to procure his victims. Mitchell Abidor, The New York Review of Books, 12 Feb. 2020 Not since Carson Palmer has one of Mike Brown’s hirelings had the emperor in such a headlock. Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 2 Jan. 2018 This dangerous idea is being pushed by Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater, a U.S. contracting firm whose private security hirelings famously shot up civilians in Baghdad. Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 18 Aug. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hireling
Noun
  • Al Jazeera employees even reportedly work with the terrorist group to identify protesters.
    Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP What To Know The Secret Service has launched an internal review into the screening failure on August 31, and the employee responsible for searching the guest's bag has been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of that review, the agency said.
    Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Rural farmers could receive payments, urban workers could send money home and millions joined the formal economy for the first time.
    Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • It’s gotten so bad that, in one of the largest H-2A criminal cases ever, a federal judge described the abuse of these workers as a form of modern-day slavery.
    Max Blau, ProPublica, 16 Sep. 2025

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“Hireling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hireling. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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