myrmidon

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Recent Examples of myrmidon The message from the leftist Democrats and their odious myrmidons in the media, Hollywood, academia, Big Tech, et al is thus: Agree with our narrative or be destroyed. Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 3 June 2024 In the pending merger of Sprint and T-Mobile, our myrmidons have a chance to do better. Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 11 May 2018 OK, first of all, George III didn't have myrmidons. Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 20 Mar. 2014
Recent Examples of Synonyms for myrmidon
Noun
  • Hitler surrounded himself with sycophants, had zero tolerance for dissent and demanded unwavering loyalty.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 8 June 2025
  • Nobody advertises for sycophants, but often recruiting and interview processes can favor candidates who are agreeable and whose thinking doesn’t conflict with the status quo.
    Roger Dooley, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • Outside of one good scene between Clark and Lois, almost every frame is constantly packed with characters, whether this is the (admittedly very funny) Justice Gang (Nathan Fillion’s Green Lantern, Isabela Merced’s Hawkgirl and Edi Gathegi’s scene-stealing Mister Terrific) or Lex and his lackeys.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
  • Where Supes clocks an evil lackey straight in the jaw so hard that his teeth hit the camera lens?
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • The showdown of General Zod and his henchmen also takes place at the Fortress, with a great twist to defeat them.
    Daryl Baxter, Space.com, 11 July 2025
  • Malaparte, by then, was making his name as one of Mussolini’s highbrow henchmen.
    Thomas Meaney, New Yorker, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • Donald Trump is desperate to distract his followers from a scandal of his own making, pulling out all the stops to try to get MAGA minions to talk and think about something else — anything else.
    Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 21 July 2025
  • Daigo's minions will be making an appearance in Lego Fortnite Odyssey now that the Spires are activated, so players will have to watch out for that while working on their villages.
    Oliver Brandt, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 July 2025
Noun
  • Long before Trump and his MAGA acolytes, Modi understood how the primal power of blood could be deployed against the delicate bloom of ideas and abstractions.
    Aatish Taseer, Time, 15 July 2025
  • The deal requires approval from the Federal Communications Commission, led by Trump acolyte Brendan Carr.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • The victim was a 20-year-old American soldier stationed in West Germany, Edward Pimental, for whom the group set a murderous honeytrap.
    Katja Hoyer, semafor.com, 19 July 2025
  • The disarmament ceremony signaled an end to the armed conflict between the PKK and Turkey, one that has killed around 40,000 militants, soldiers, and civilians since 1984.
    Ragip Soylu, Time, 18 July 2025
Noun
  • Modi began his career as an RSS apparatchik before being sent by the organization to work for the BJP.
    HARTOSH SINGH BAL, Foreign Affairs, 30 June 2025
  • The new play now at A Red Orchid Theatre is about the existential angst that flows from an acting role only a Soviet apparatchik could truly love: standing in for a murderous dictator with myriad enemies.
    Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2025
Noun
  • According to Mandala, satellite services are easier to scale as more planes adopt them and more passengers use them.
    Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 25 July 2025
  • In this photo released by Roscosmos State Space Corporate on Friday, July 25, 2025, A Soyuz rocket lifts off from a launch site in Vostochny in far eastern Russia carrying an Iranian satellite along with Russian satellites into orbit.
    Amir Daftari Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 July 2025

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“Myrmidon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/myrmidon. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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