running dog

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for running dog
Noun
  • Orbits fall into three basic categories: Low: The majority of research satellites, such as the fleet of NASA's Earth Observing System.
    Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 21 Apr. 2025
  • One-time $19.95 activation fee may apply for satellite customers.
    Danielle Directo-Meston, HollywoodReporter, 19 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • First-time head coach Campo was a good company man, and solid defensive coordinator.
    Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Jan. 2025
  • This would certainly be a huge match for both Hendry and TNA, especially since Cena is so recognized as a company man who has only wrestled with WWE.
    John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Small medieval villages are demolished in the wake of hell’s minions pouring forth from their dimension and into the next.
    Kazuma Hashimoto, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2025
  • At just 17 years old, Amanda Seyfried booked her breakout role in Mean Girls as Regina George’s bimbo minion who could predict the weather with her boobs.
    airmail.news, airmail.news, 15 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • But Trump contends it was only meant to cover former slaves and not the modern influx of immigrants.
    Bart Jansen, USA Today, 1 May 2025
  • The bite marks seem to confirm that the skeletons buried at the cemetery were gladiators — and not soldiers or slaves, as previously thought, according to Malin Holst, lecturer in osteoarchaeology at the University of York’s Department of Archaeology.
    Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The Galactic Emperor’s top henchman and the freedom fighter Luke Skywalker were related?
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Their explosive investigation gets even more dangerous as Mike and Marcus must protect murder witness Julie (Téa Leoni) from a French drug kingpin and his deadly henchmen after surviving a shoot-out.
    Rendy Jones, EW.com, 7 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In exchange, the fish will help the mussel get rid of parasites.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 21 Apr. 2025
  • The parasite, named Sirenobethylus charybdis after the seawater-swallowing monster from Greek mythology, may represent a whole new family of insects.
    Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Local dive shops run trips to the wreck, where sea turtles mingle with coral, sponges and cascades of colorful fish.
    Marnie Hunter, CNN Money, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Newsletter Sign up for our email newsletter for the latest science news David Kaplan has been working with silk for decades, molding and shaping it into scaffolds, sponges, and films.
    Amy Paturel, Discover Magazine, 22 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • But framing Paul American as a retrospection on labor, with the boys and their family and their lackeys gassing them up over and over, just isn’t that interesting.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The current cast is rounded out by Alison Brie, who will play another Skeletor lackey, Evil-Lyn, Idris Elba, who will play the noble Man-at-Arms, and Riverdale's Camila Mendes as Teela, Man-at-Arms's daughter and He-Man's right-hand woman.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 21 Dec. 2024
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“Running dog.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/running%20dog. Accessed 3 May. 2025.

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