quisling

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Recent Examples of quisling But the president's new FTC chair, Andrew Ferguson, is an outspoken Big Tech critic on X and is signaling the panel won't be stacked with pro-industry quislings. Marc Caputo, Axios, 10 Feb. 2025 Erdogan, meanwhile, lambasted Kilicdaroglu as a quisling who is in cahoots with the West and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, a Kurdish separatist group that both Ankara and Washington consider a terrorist entity. Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2023 And Kilicdaroglu was an easy mark for Erdogan, who has belittled him for years and cast him during the campaign as both a terrorist and a quisling for Western interests — accusations that stuck in the minds of some voters. Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 27 May 2023 This may sound like a technical squabble among quislings. David Z. Morris, Slate Magazine, 6 June 2017
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Noun
  • The American president is a traitor to the democratic world.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2025
  • If that isn’t pressure enough, the women are faced with a mysterious traitor who emerges, years later, as the three friends are torn apart.
    Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 25 Mar. 2025

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“Quisling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quisling. Accessed 1 May. 2025.

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