running dog

Definition of running dognext

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for running dog
Noun
  • Using a Garmin inReach satellite device, the brothers were able to alert rescuers, but help wasn’t coming quickly.
    Amber Harding OutKick, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Payload is communications satellite for Hispasat known also as the Amazonas Nexus.
    Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • With that in mind, and a lack of serious options at the moment, the decisions to appoint two company men, Rosenior and Fletcher — albeit in different circumstances — is more understandable than in previous years.
    Michael Cox, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Family, company man Pearce was born on Aug. 20, 1942, in Bismarck, North Dakota, to William Ridgely and Jean Murray Pearce.
    Jackie Charniga, Freep.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Both women traveled to Syria in 2014 with their families and allegedly kept a female slave at their homes, police said.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 8 May 2026
  • Kawsar Abbas, 53, and her daughter Zeinab Ahmed, 31, were charged in a Melbourne court in relation to allegations that their family bought a female Yazidi slave for $10,000, police said in a statement.
    ABC News, ABC News, 7 May 2026
Noun
  • Your president and his minions spread war, chaos, lies and economic instability.
    Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Scott Quigley, a loyal minion of yet another septuagenarian Democrat hack DA, Marian Ryan of Middlesex County.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 26 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • When the newlyweds arrive home, they are attacked by Naz and his henchman (played by Matt Willig).
    Allison DeGrushe, StyleCaster, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Key witnesses in the government’s case included Spann’s top henchmen, who cooperated with prosecutors in hopes for leniency.
    Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • There's something a little different about these particular parasites, however.
    Richard Edwards, Space.com, 1 May 2026
  • Flea larvae eat tapeworm eggs, and as the flea matures, the parasite develops inside it.
    Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Think of a standard lithium-ion battery as a sponge soaked in a flammable liquid – that liquid is the electrolyte, the medium that lets ions travel between the two electrodes during charging and discharging.
    Omar Kardoudi May 08, New Atlas, 8 May 2026
  • Curaçao’s sponges come in a range of natural colors and forms.
    Erik Trinidad, Travel + Leisure, 8 May 2026
Noun
  • That means, of course, she’s now been phased out of her role as a factory lackey in dystopian near-future Brazil due to her age.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Trump wants Americans to believe that his opponents are of this ilk, with his lackeys casting activists as domestic terrorists for merely showing up to protests.
    Gustavo Arellano, Houston Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2026
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“Running dog.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/running%20dog. Accessed 13 May. 2026.

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