wheeler-dealer

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Recent Examples of wheeler-dealer John Richard Simplot was a real wheeler-dealer, one of the last of the old-school American entrepreneurs. Dana Oland, Idaho Statesman, 1 Apr. 2025 Roseman, grounded in salary cap machinations, negotiations and analytics, is a wheeler-dealer deluxe. Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Feb. 2025 Michele Jackson More than six decades ago, New Yorker writer John Bainbridge spent nine months in the newly wealthy, fast-growing state of Texas, studying and schmoozing with its wheeler-dealers, oilmen, and bankers. The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2024 Delon was perfectly cast as a wheeler-dealer stockbroker who becomes involved with Vitti’s character but is unwilling and unable to satisfy her emotional needs. Carmel Dagan, Variety, 18 Aug. 2024 Indeed, her self-branding as a wheeler-dealer is yet another step in her savvy journey up the industry ladder. David Sims, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2024 An opportunity presents itself via shady Viennese wheeler-dealer Bruno Reiter (Joel Basman), who enlists Lubo’s help to smuggle jewelry and other valuables across the border. David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019 The Dutchman as exploitative wheeler-dealer David and Christopher Alden, twins, have made parallel careers as controversial stage directors. Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 8 Aug. 2023 Advertisement And Boddie is a knockout as Roosevelt, a wheeler-dealer and golf enthusiast. Celia Wren, Washington Post, 19 June 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wheeler-dealer
Noun
  • Anyone from a Hollywood Goth to a streetwear enthusiast to your average Hollywood slickster looking for something streamlined and stylish will find something here.
    Max Berlinger, Robb Report, 9 Mar. 2022
  • The jive talker, the role of slang-slinging slickster, has been picked up by Slick, Junkyard Dog and the Godfather.
    Jeremy Harriot, The Root, 1 Sep. 2017
Noun
  • And now, without further ado, an ode to the rogues and rascals who make being hot and doing crimes in this galaxy so fun to watch.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Something tells me those wary rascals spotted us and gave us the slip.
    Percy Brown, Outdoor Life, 12 June 2025
Noun
  • Also featured: a scene in which Parsons, a gamesman who actually brought his own Connect Four board to Southern California training camp, faces backup quarterback Ben DiNucci in a chess match.
    Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2021
  • Friedlander’s style of photography is usually cool, winking, and gamesman-like, but his pictures of his wife thrum with gentle affection.
    Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2019
Noun
  • The modern health insurer is regarded as either a knave or a pawn and is seldom regarded as a knight.
    Sachin H. Jain, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Human beings are motivated by virtue (knights) or rigid self-interest (knaves), or are passive victims of their circumstances (pawns).
    Sachin H. Jain, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • But when Amelia goes rogue on a lethal mission for AI to rule the world, Gemma comes to realize that M3GAN is the only one who can stop her.
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 29 June 2025
  • Essentially, two things triggered the LLMs into going rogue.
    David Szondy June 28, New Atlas, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • The European far right is skillfully seizing the moment, promising an agricultural overhaul and a chance to stick it to the city slickers.
    Emily Rauhala, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2024
  • For the dapper dog walker there's plenty of tweed caps and country-style rain slickers.
    Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • People and domestic animals should always avoid physical contact with wild animals such as raccoons, bats, foxes, skunks, otters, bobcats, coyotes, which carry a higher risk of human exposure and a need for rabies post-exposure treatment.
    Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 June 2025
  • Many purported sightings of mountain lions in Oklahoma turn out to be other animals, including bobcats, house cats, dogs, coyotes, foxes, deer and rabbits.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 June 2025
Noun
  • Caricatured by Honoré Daumier and his lesser followers always as a mountebank, a charlatan, a circus clown, Louis Napoleon could normalize the extent of his outrages by the seeming harmlessness of his absurdities.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 13 June 2025
  • With tariffs on pharmaceuticals, the mountebank of Mar-A-Lago wants to punish a small democracy of 5.3 million people that for the past 60 years has worked its way into the top table of drug research and production: Ireland.
    Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 29 Mar. 2025

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