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Recent Examples of enforcer
For the second consecutive morning, Victoria Reyes was forced to move her belongings and four dogs a few hundred feet to abide by the city of Sacramento’s code enforcers.
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Mathew Miranda, Sacramento Bee, 21 Feb. 2025
Achyut Kumar plays Prabhu, a pitiless small-town businessman running for local office with the help of his right-hand enforcer, Malabari (Dileesh Pothan).
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 17 Feb. 2025
The Carolina Panthers have added a new enforcer to their defensive secondary.
—Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 10 Mar. 2025
These two adore each other, though Nasha is a high-level enforcer in the new world order and Mickey is, well, expendable.
—Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 7 Mar. 2025
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Mathew Miranda, Sacramento Bee, 21 Feb. 2025
Achyut Kumar plays Prabhu, a pitiless small-town businessman running for local office with the help of his right-hand enforcer, Malabari (Dileesh Pothan).
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 17 Feb. 2025
The Carolina Panthers have added a new enforcer to their defensive secondary.
—Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 10 Mar. 2025
These two adore each other, though Nasha is a high-level enforcer in the new world order and Mickey is, well, expendable.
—Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 7 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for enforcer
Noun
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Both were industrious strivers at work and strict disciplinarians at home.—
Danielle Amir Jackson,
The Atlantic,
27 Feb. 2025
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After three years with John Fox, Pace didn’t need to fully reset the culture inside Halas Hall and bring in an experienced disciplinarian because Fox had helped clean up the mess left behind by the Phil Emery/Marc Trestman administration.—
Adam Jahns,
The Athletic,
5 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Jesse, understandably, has become more defensive about antisemitism since he was brutally attacked by thugs who singled him out for being Jewish.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Mar. 2025
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The hundreds of attacks being made by Houthi, the sinister mobsters and thugs based in Yemen, who are hated by the Yemeni people, all emanate from, and are created by, IRAN.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
18 Mar. 2025
Noun
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As the sun joins taskmaster Saturn in Pisces, your eighth house of transformation and catharsis becomes illuminated.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
11 Mar. 2025
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Go From Managing Tasks To Developing People One of the most significant mindset shifts great leaders make is moving from manager as taskmaster to manager as developer.—
Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio,
Forbes,
4 Mar. 2025
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An hour ago, the stocky British actor best known on these shores for playing tough guys and gangsters was on a morning talk show, after having chatted with Jimmy Fallon the previous evening.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
22 Mar. 2025
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Dealing with the fractious relationship between gangsters and former friends Frank Costello and Vito Genovese, the film strains for an epic quality that the filmmaking doesn’t support.—
Frank Scheck,
The Hollywood Reporter,
19 Mar. 2025
Noun
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But filmmaker Feras Fayyad, who endured torture in Assad’s prisons, never gave up the certainty that one day the dictator would be ousted.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
25 Mar. 2025
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As soon as the dictator was out, Samer Jalbout was on the move.—
Taylor Luck,
The Christian Science Monitor,
25 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Inside you there are two mobsters, and Robert De Niro plays both.—
Gregory Nussen,
Deadline,
21 Mar. 2025
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Gambon plays a mobster who takes over a restaurant while his wife’s affections wander elsewhere.—
Mark Olsen,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The assailants are domestic extremists whose aim is to further an agenda of tyrants and oligarchs.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
21 Mar. 2025
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It was used, with the blood of brave Ukrainians, to defend their country from a tyrant’s aggression.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
4 Mar. 2025
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In the other corner: Vito Genovese, Costello’s childhood friend and fellow racketeer, who had to leave town long ago because of a thing, and has now come home to resume his place in the Mafia hierarchy.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
20 Mar. 2025
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Oh yeah, this relationship with this 38-year-old racketeer is so beautiful.—
Michael Cuby,
Them,
1 Aug. 2024
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“Enforcer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enforcer. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.
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