How to Use spin doctor in a Sentence

spin doctor

noun
  • The spin doctors from both sides were already declaring victory for their candidates as soon as the debate ended.
  • That was the rap that all of the spin doctors had been pushing.
    Jack Holmes, Esquire, 29 Jan. 2016
  • Roosevelt’s spin doctors had always been perplexed that some wartime sound bites caught on while others did not.
    Abigail Tucker, Smithsonian, 23 Feb. 2018
  • Trump undermined the efforts of his spin doctors by providing his own take just a bit later.
    Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 26 Apr. 2020
  • The late Princess Diana was a media mastermind, an unabashed spin doctor of her own wounded cause.
    Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 13 Nov. 2022
  • That’s still a long way off, any service members stranded in danger before then can still count on an improved chance of rescue thanks to this new spin doctor.
    Eric Adams, WIRED, 19 July 2019
  • The public relations spin doctors are working overtime at Apple this week.
    Josh Hoxie, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Panjandrums such as Tony Blair’s loathed former spin doctor, Alastair Campbell, pretended that what was needed was a second vote.
    Douglas Murray, National Review, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Putin, perhaps with an eye to posterity, has been trying to rehabilitate the reputation of the deceased tyrant and mass murderer — a task that will challenge the skills of his spin doctors.
    Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Charles tried to push back, hiring his own spin doctor, Mark Bolland, apparently in an attempt to rejuvenate her public image.
    Alexander Smith, NBC News, 8 Sep. 2022
  • While the Soviet Union was — at least in theory — a dictatorship of the proletariat, Putin’s Russia is truly a spin doctor dictatorship.
    Leonid Ragozin, Time, 10 Sep. 2019
  • In a profession often regarded with skepticism, Mr. Rubenstein, the founding chairman and president of Rubenstein Associates, was sometimes called a spin doctor, a charlatan or worse.
    New York Times, 29 Dec. 2020
  • Proekt, an investigative website founded by several of Russia’s leading independent journalists, bases its story on anonymous interviews with sources close to the government, to Rosatom, and to the spin doctors themselves.
    Max De Haldevang, Quartz, 16 Nov. 2019
  • There are many intriguing dinners over which the pair allegedly cracked their plan with the help of a solicitor, a professional spin doctor, and eventually a journalist, Penny Junor, who was commissioned to portray Camilla well at Diana’s expense.
    Kenzie Bryant, Vanities, 21 Mar. 2018

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