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Recent Examples of hired gun
Every four years, ambitious consultants and hired guns sit down with aspiring presidents and sell them a lie.
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Philip Elliott, Time, 17 Aug. 2023
Anderson has been healthy and active for well over a decade, but the band — which now features Seventies guitarist Steve Howe, Drama-era keyboardist Geoff Downes, and hired guns — refuses to take him back.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 3 Apr. 2023
The ironically named Pleasant Valley War began as a dispute between the Grahams and the Tewksburys and eventually ensnared friends, neighbors and hired guns.
—Roger Naylor, azcentral, 12 Dec. 2019
They are hired guns in one of Manila’s hundreds of troll farms churning out fake content, false narratives and anything else the client wants.
—Washington Post, 26 July 2019
The retailer went on to reportedly hire gun control lobbyists in April.
—Nadra Nittle, Vox, 17 Dec. 2018
Political opponents and hired guns sling mud and cast aspersions, sometimes concocting things from whole cloth.
—Chad Pergram, Fox News, 10 Sep. 2018
Nobody in this play is more lost than Ed Devery, a lawyer who’d once been a crusading idealist, before becoming Harry’s hired gun and a drunk.
—Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 June 2018
The contrade pay their jockeys handsomely to ride for them, yet these jockeys are hired guns and fundamentally unfaithful.
—Dwight Garner, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2018
Philip Elliott, Time, 17 Aug. 2023
Anderson has been healthy and active for well over a decade, but the band — which now features Seventies guitarist Steve Howe, Drama-era keyboardist Geoff Downes, and hired guns — refuses to take him back.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 3 Apr. 2023
The ironically named Pleasant Valley War began as a dispute between the Grahams and the Tewksburys and eventually ensnared friends, neighbors and hired guns.
—Roger Naylor, azcentral, 12 Dec. 2019
They are hired guns in one of Manila’s hundreds of troll farms churning out fake content, false narratives and anything else the client wants.
—Washington Post, 26 July 2019
The retailer went on to reportedly hire gun control lobbyists in April.
—Nadra Nittle, Vox, 17 Dec. 2018
Political opponents and hired guns sling mud and cast aspersions, sometimes concocting things from whole cloth.
—Chad Pergram, Fox News, 10 Sep. 2018
Nobody in this play is more lost than Ed Devery, a lawyer who’d once been a crusading idealist, before becoming Harry’s hired gun and a drunk.
—Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 June 2018
The contrade pay their jockeys handsomely to ride for them, yet these jockeys are hired guns and fundamentally unfaithful.
—Dwight Garner, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2018
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“Hired gun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hired%20gun. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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