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Recent Examples of wheeler-dealer
That’s the punch line of an old joke about a wheeler-dealer offering something attractive — on the condition the offeree sell their soul to the devil.
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Edward Lotterman,
Twin Cities,
31 May 2026
Bordeaux’s rise was fuelled by Claude Bez, a wheeler-dealer who ran an accounting firm.
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Michael Cox,
New York Times,
11 Mar. 2026
His father was a wheeler-dealer who lived by quick wits and the sweat of his brow, dabbling in bootlegged sake, swine farming, loan sharking, and later pachinko parlors—Japan’s ubiquitous low-stakes gambling game of clattering steel ball bearings.
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Charlie Campbell,
Time,
24 Feb. 2026
Foremost, general manager John Schneider, 54, showed he’s evolved into a top-tier talent man and wheeler-dealer.
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Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Feb. 2026
Nelson is a Willy Loman, a failing wheeler-dealer and big talker with no game to back him up.
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Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
26 Sep. 2025
The picture these witnesses painted of Combs gels with previous depictions of the rap mogul as a hot-blooded, win-at-all-costs wheeler-dealer, which until now had lived mostly in the realm of rumor.
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Sheldon Pearce,
NPR,
3 July 2025
John Richard Simplot was a real wheeler-dealer, one of the last of the old-school American entrepreneurs.
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Dana Oland,
Idaho Statesman,
1 Apr. 2025
Edward Lotterman,
Twin Cities,
31 May 2026
Bordeaux’s rise was fuelled by Claude Bez, a wheeler-dealer who ran an accounting firm.
—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
11 Mar. 2026
His father was a wheeler-dealer who lived by quick wits and the sweat of his brow, dabbling in bootlegged sake, swine farming, loan sharking, and later pachinko parlors—Japan’s ubiquitous low-stakes gambling game of clattering steel ball bearings.
—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
24 Feb. 2026
Foremost, general manager John Schneider, 54, showed he’s evolved into a top-tier talent man and wheeler-dealer.
—
Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Feb. 2026
Nelson is a Willy Loman, a failing wheeler-dealer and big talker with no game to back him up.
—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
26 Sep. 2025
The picture these witnesses painted of Combs gels with previous depictions of the rap mogul as a hot-blooded, win-at-all-costs wheeler-dealer, which until now had lived mostly in the realm of rumor.
—
Sheldon Pearce,
NPR,
3 July 2025
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wheeler-dealer
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Anyone from a Hollywood Goth to a streetwear enthusiast to your average Hollywood slickster looking for something streamlined and stylish will find something here.
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The jive talker, the role of slang-slinging slickster, has been picked up by Slick, Junkyard Dog and the Godfather.
Noun
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The film is set in a declining industrial city in Northeast China and traces a young man’s search for his father, a small-time schemer who chased quick riches during the freewheeling capitalist surge of the late 1990s and early 2000s in Southern China.
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Readers may learn about the Florida aquifer, cowhunters, deadhead logging, old-school conservationists such as Marjory Stoneman Douglas and even Charles Ponzi, the famed schemer.
Noun
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Even though the Feeneys have gotten more competitive under the junior Michel’s management, the rascal-on-the-field ethos of the original team still prevails.
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Not even the curmudgeonly Melvin can bring himself to harm the little rascal.
Noun
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Try for yourselves, ye witless knaves— Take each to bed your Sally!
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Many a knave is rich, sleek, and honored, while the just man is poor, hated, and in torment.
Noun
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Rabies is often found in bats, raccoons, skunks, and foxes, but any mammal can be infected.
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There are numerous color choices, including toffee, fox, mood indigo, soft pink, blue pearl, lava rock, and toasted coconuts.
Noun
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City slickers will definitely get a bang for their buck with this place, which is a lot more spacious than a shoebox on the Upper East Side.
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During the Waleses' trip to Canada in October 1991, Diana made time between touring an AIDS hospice and a women's shelter to join William, 9, and Harry, 7, on a visit to Niagara Falls, where the trio donned rain slickers for a wet and wild voyage on the Maid of the Mist.
Noun
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Good afternoon and welcome to Con Con, the convention for swindlers, mountebanks, and the people who love them.
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Godard might have come across as a species of poseur – a pretentious, quote-spouting mountebank – but his way of seeing was genuinely new.
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Others estimate that $500 billion in federal spending is diverted by charlatans each year.
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To this day, a portion of the left-wing Democratic elite views Obama as a charlatan who hoodwinked their voters into supporting him.
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“Wheeler-dealer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wheeler-dealer. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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