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Eric Coomer, who was the security and product strategy director at the voting equipment company, sued the MyPillow founder and conspiracy theorist for calling him a traitor and accusing him of stealing the 2020 election.—
Jade Walker,
CNN Money,
17 June 2025 -
The faithfuls must determine who the traitors are and banish them from the game in order to win the grand prize.—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
13 June 2025
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To make selling conversations more effective, channel professionals must make time to strengthen relationships, not just as salespeople, but as trusted collaborators in driving shared success.—
Susana Cabrera,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2025
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Judith eventually became her husband’s partner, creative collaborator and president of their production company.—
Frazier Moore,
The Washington Examiner,
26 June 2025
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Ohtani threw 28 pitches — 16 for strikes — in the first inning as the sellout crowd of 53,207 hung on every one.—
Beth Harris,
Chicago Tribune,
17 June 2025
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In turn, Soto tipped his helmet to the sellout crowd of 47,700, the fourth-largest Yankee Stadium crowd of the season.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
17 May 2025
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Some have likened Barrett to the late Justice David Souter, who was appointed by Republican President George H.W. Bush and later branded a turncoat.—
Devin Dwyer,
ABC News,
25 June 2025
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In the pantheon of Bond villains, turncoats from MI6 have often served as some of the best baddies.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
18 June 2025
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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
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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
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The shooting of former Broncos player Josh Reynolds and his friend while they were chased by a dozen conspirators across Denver last year was not motivated by Reynolds’ status as an NFL player, the Denver District Attorney’s Office said this week.—
Shelly Bradbury,
Denver Post,
30 Apr. 2025
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The primary conspirators behind the Oklahoma City bombing were Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols.—
Alex Gurley,
People.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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Schmidt is said to be possessed by four entities that announce themselves as Beelzebub, betraying disciple Judas, Schmidt's abusive father Jacob and Mina (Jacob's lover and Schmidt's aunt).—
Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
8 June 2025
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There’s another aspect of the show that mirrors modern times: A seething anger so strong that in one bit Judas deliberately walks into Jesus.—
Matthew J. Palm,
The Orlando Sentinel,
4 June 2025
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Bob Michel, the longtime accommodationist who treated Democratic House majorities as an unalterable fact of life, faded away, and the pugilistic Newt Gingrich ascended.—
Ed Burmila,
The New Republic,
15 June 2022
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Many African American activists had broken with King, advocating Black Power rather than racial reconciliation, abandoning nonviolence, and denouncing King as an accommodationist.—
Drew Gilpin Faust,
The Atlantic,
18 July 2019
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“Subverter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subverter. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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