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Recent Examples of blackleg
Herding Sheep with Bill There was no contradicting his calendar
Of superstitions – the feast of some saint or other
The sheep had to be herded off the mountain,
Culled and counted, dipped and
Doctored with shots for blackleg.
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Hartford Courant, courant.com, 11 Mar. 2018
Hartford Courant, courant.com, 11 Mar. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blackleg
Noun
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And there is possibly no American actor more suited than Mr. Mays to shuffling through the dozens of players in Dickens’s celebrated tale with the ease of a cardsharp.—
Charles Isherwood,
WSJ,
23 Nov. 2022
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The yarn Guimarães tells about encountering one of his idols, a storied cardsharp who could effortlessly pull off any sleight of hand necessary to tilt a high-stakes game in his favor, gets lost in the shuffle of the show’s activities.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Dec. 2020
Noun
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Implications Le Grand's work on post-World War II British social policy found that perceptions of human motivations gradually transformed, with the prevailing view of the typical British citizenry morphing from knight into knave as the costs of maintaining an expensive welfare state increased.—
Sachin H. Jain,
Forbes,
20 Dec. 2024
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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
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The plotters coördinated through a Signal chat, called World Cup 2022, in which each identified himself as a national team: Austria, Germany, Ghana.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2025
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The plotter’s approach resembles architectural design.—
JD Barker,
Rolling Stone,
24 Feb. 2025
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“Blackleg.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blackleg. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.
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