running dog

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for running dog
Noun
  • The pair last year announced a partnership wherein Verizon would invest $100 million in the satellite firm and give it access to a portion of its radio spectrum to enable satellite-to-phone services.
    Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The new processor allows for emergency satellite communication.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • This is the language of a company man, not a freethinker.
    Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The 58-year-old Bergman is a company man, having joined back in 1996, and is regarded as sharp and skilled at overseeing a portfolio that includes Marvel, Pixar, Walt Disney Animation and Lucasfilm.
    Peter Kiefer, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 2025
Noun
  • Everything Wendy does this week just looks cool, thanks in part to her impressive calm and sense of purpose, and thanks even more to the way she’s framed: often from a low angle, at the center of the composition, surrounded by her minions.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Rapidly spreading its toxic influence across the lands, Magatsu and its minions are a world-ending threat, and the early tutorial bit sees players square up against the baddie only to ultimately lose.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • It was intended to ensure that Black people, including former slaves, had citizenship.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Commemorative coins honoring the 200th anniversary of the birth of Harriet Tubman, a former slave who helped other slaves escape through the Underground Railroad, were issued in 2024.
    Josh Meyer, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Over eight episodes, the brothers find themselves at the mercy of Mancuso — a former family friend — and his vicious henchmen, and they are forced to confront the emotional scars of growing up with an alcoholic father, who had gambled away his own restaurant.
    Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 21 Sep. 2025
  • In broad daylight, a presidential henchman openly threatened to inflict financial pain in retribution for speech the leader doesn't like.
    Matt Robison, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Then, of course, there's the breakout star of the show, Trypanohyncha Ocellus (aka the freaky eye/squid/parasite thing), which comes with its own mix tape of sonic horrors.
    Richard Edwards, Space.com, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Such heat shortens the parasite’s incubation time inside mosquitoes, increasing the odds of transmission.
    Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Instead of adding texture via techniques like sponge painting, opt for limewash or clay plaster treatment.
    Tessa Cooper, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Think of the amount of moisture in the atmosphere like the amount of water in a sponge.
    Chris Dolce, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Netflix After Jake betrays Vince by tricking him into revealing his whereabouts to Mancuso and his lackey Babbitt (Chris Coy) to protect Vince's daughter Gen (Odessa Young) and get her to safety, Jake rushes to help Vince once again escape a vengeful Mancuso's clutches.
    Megan McCluskey, Time, 18 Sep. 2025
  • In the months before the $5 million match, Ali turned up the invective, calling Frazier dumb, mocking his dark skin, and painting him as a lackey for his white handlers.
    Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
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“Running dog.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/running%20dog. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.

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