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Recent Examples of shill
He’s got no whiskey to shill or brand to build other than being himself.
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Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Apr. 2024
Jon Kelly, editor in chief of Puck, similarly defended his reporter, who was portrayed in the piece as a Zucker shill.
—Oliver Darcy, CNN, 25 July 2023
Daniel Colón-Ramos teaches at the medical school, where the sleazy quack, public-health mediocrity, leaky-lab patron, drug-company shill, and cover-up artist Dr. Fauci delivered a commencement address last year.
—Brian T. Allen, National Review, 8 Feb. 2024
At the end of the deposition in 2022, Mr. Trump sought to diminish Ms. Kaplan, shrugging her off as a shill of the Democratic Party.
—Kate Christobek, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2024
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Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Apr. 2024
Jon Kelly, editor in chief of Puck, similarly defended his reporter, who was portrayed in the piece as a Zucker shill.
—Oliver Darcy, CNN, 25 July 2023
Daniel Colón-Ramos teaches at the medical school, where the sleazy quack, public-health mediocrity, leaky-lab patron, drug-company shill, and cover-up artist Dr. Fauci delivered a commencement address last year.
—Brian T. Allen, National Review, 8 Feb. 2024
At the end of the deposition in 2022, Mr. Trump sought to diminish Ms. Kaplan, shrugging her off as a shill of the Democratic Party.
—Kate Christobek, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shill
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Drake’s petition accuses UMG of paying an independent radio promoter acting as an intermediary, who then paid other radio stations to boost airplay of Lamar’s track.Alli Rosenbloom, CNN, 25 Nov. 2024
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The Paris plan went by the wayside last year because the league couldn’t find a promoter.Evan Drellich, The Athletic, 21 Nov. 2024
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First lady Jill Biden told several dozen military children who sat in front of her on the floor of the East Room facing two large glittering Christmas trees flanking the doorway that they are loved.arkansasonline.com, arkansasonline.com, 14 Dec. 2024
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He was arrested for a DUI and handcuffed with his hands in front of him.Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 13 Dec. 2024
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Regrettably, Amnesty International, once a storied human rights organization, has lost all credibility, becoming nothing more than a propaganda mouthpiece for the murderers and rapists of Hamas.Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
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Those who are sceptical fear that Shah, whose father Amit Shah is India's minister of home affairs and the right-hand man to nationalistic prime minster Narendra Modi, will be merely a mouthpiece for India.Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
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“Shill.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shill. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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