How to Use dossier in a Sentence

dossier

noun
  • Many Democrats clung to hope that the dossier was true.
    Marshall Cohen, CNN, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Ten of the 12 men named in the dossier are said to be members of Hamas.
    Matt Bradley, NBC News, 29 Jan. 2024
  • And what of the Steele dossier, paid for by the Clinton campaign?
    Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2019
  • This is not the first time that Steele and Orbis have been sued over the dossier in British courts.
    Karla Adam, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2023
  • On its face, the dossier is a screed full of blatant nonsense.
    The Editors, National Review, 6 Nov. 2021
  • Refer to this list as a sweet dossier, with must-make recipes and great-to-know tips.
    Nina Moskowitz, Bon Appétit, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Many of the dossier’s more lurid claims proved false or unprovable.
    Mihir Zaveri, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2020
  • Now the glow has faded — from both the dossier and its promoters.
    New York Times, 15 May 2021
  • The dossier was leaked to BuzzFeed, which published it in early 2017.
    Karla Adam, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The fallout from the dossier was largely contained to the Page surveillance.
    Marshall Cohen, CNN, 18 Nov. 2021
  • The dossier, published by BuzzFeed News, used code names to conceal its sources.
    Alan Cullison, WSJ, 9 May 2022
  • The crime was brought to light by a 40-page dossier compiled by Aldo and his sons Roberto and Giorgio.
    Nick Allen, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Woodward told The Post that his past comments about the dossier may have encouraged Trump to speak with him.
    Elahe Izadi, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Both the dossier and the Durham probe are politically charged.
    Arkansas Online, 5 Nov. 2021
  • That information was then included in the dossier passed along to the FBI.
    Catherine Herridge, CBS News, 15 May 2023
  • Horowitz probed the use of the Steele dossier as justification.
    Catherine Herridge, Clare Hymes, CBS News, 9 Dec. 2019
  • Steele said the information in the dossier... came from Russia.
    Fox News, 14 June 2019
  • The Mueller report dismissed several key claims in the dossier.
    Rebecca Ballhaus, WSJ, 26 June 2019
  • Steele’s dossier, a shoddy product on its face, is now a hot, steaming mess.
    Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 24 Aug. 2020
  • The fake dossier, the surveillance of Carter Page and the Mueller investigation were wrong.
    Andrew Stein, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Donald Trump's ties to Russia has raised new questions about sourcing of the Steele dossier.
    Matthew Mosk, ABC News, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Michonne is going to destroy the dossier Jadis/Anne used to blackmail them.
    Leah Marilla Thomas, Vulture, 31 Mar. 2024
  • By June, a dossier on Coomer that was more than a hundred pages long began making the rounds on Telegram.
    New York Times, 24 Aug. 2021
  • Igor Danchenko, a Russian national linked to the Steele dossier, still faces Durham charges.
    Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 31 May 2022
  • What is the Steele dossier and why do Republicans keep bringing it up?
    Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2019
  • Comey’s right, by the way, that the FBI didn’t dismiss the accuracy of the Steele dossier, although this isn’t a point in the agency’s favor.
    Rich Lowry, National Review, 16 Dec. 2019
  • Records show that Sky Bet had what amounted to a dossier of information about Gregg.
    Adam Satariano, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2021
  • McAvoy entered the new season with only 24 goals in his career dossier.
    BostonGlobe.com, 17 Oct. 2021
  • Vance, elected to the Senate in 2022, has a relatively short dossier in public life; no one expects a first-term lawmaker in the minority party to have much of an impact.
    Philip Elliott, TIME, 30 Sep. 2024
  • In supporting BuzzFeed’s still controversial decision to publish the dossier, Abramson parts company with many of her peers.
    Jacob Weisberg, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2019

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