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
• The Kremlin spokesman and top Putin spin doctor could now have another tough story to sell to his countrymen: namely why his very own son may have refused the call to duty despite being a prime candidate.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2022
• Vadim Baranov, fictional Putin adviser, rose to great heights as the Kremlin’s spin doctor before resigning.
  — New York Times, 25 Oct. 2023
• 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

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024