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Noun
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There are people in the government who qualify for the term traitor.—
Letters to the Editor,
Orlando Sentinel,
18 Mar. 2025 -
Clearly, curator Samantha Johnston, who also happens to be CPAC’s executive director, is playing the traitor here by engaging with artists whose main tools are prompts, entered into programs, which generate images based on billions of data sets stored digitally around the globe.—
Ray Mark Rinaldi,
The Denver Post,
17 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Her collaborators, director Bernardo Bertolucci and star Marlon Brando (Dillon) seem to be bringing out the best in Maria, sharing a warm rapport and mentorship with the 19-year old girl.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
11 Mar. 2025
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The superhero movie satire from creator/executive producer Jon Brown had Oscar winner Sam Mendes and Emmy-winning frequent HBO collaborator Armando Iannucci as executive producers.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
10 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Reese received quite an ovation from the sellout crowd checking out of the game for the final 23.2 seconds.—
Sam Cohn,
Baltimore Sun,
8 Mar. 2025
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The second leg is March 13 at the National Stadium in Kingston, where a sellout crowd of 35,000 is expected.—
Michelle Kaufman,
Miami Herald,
5 Mar. 2025
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This is all happening because the person who’s supposed to be leading the charge against the spread of communicable disease is something of a turncoat, instead working to increase our vulnerability to these pathogens.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
28 Feb. 2025
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This is less a chant and more a fireworks show celebrating the permanent expungement of all turncoats and pests.—
Stephen Kearse,
Vulture,
4 Feb. 2025
Noun
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But the president's new FTC chair, Andrew Ferguson, is an outspoken Big Tech critic on X and is signaling the panel won't be stacked with pro-industry quislings.—
Marc Caputo,
Axios,
10 Feb. 2025
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Erdogan, meanwhile, lambasted Kilicdaroglu as a quisling who is in cahoots with the West and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, a Kurdish separatist group that both Ankara and Washington consider a terrorist entity.—
Nabih Bulos,
Los Angeles Times,
28 May 2023
Noun
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Despite knowing of the dangers, Mendez, a native of the Dominican Republic, and her conspirators stored fentanyl and press machines beneath trapdoors under play mats and cribs, according to court records.—
Molly Crane-Newman,
New York Daily News,
3 Mar. 2025
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In exchange, Adams allegedly used his power as Brooklyn borough president and later as mayor to give the foreign conspirators preferential treatment for various projects and proposals, including permits for the Turkish consulate despite fire safety concerns, the indictment said.—
Ivan Pereira,
ABC News,
14 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The cast includes Jaime Ward as Jesus, James Faulkner as Caiaphas, and Robert Knepper (Prison Break) as Judas.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
14 Mar. 2025
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Lady Gaga, in character as Mary Magdalene, monitors the final showdown between Jesus and Judas in this velvet hat shaped like the body of the Eraserhead baby.—
Kinsey Jasnoch,
Vulture,
7 Mar. 2025
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Bob Michel, the longtime accommodationist who treated Democratic House majorities as an unalterable fact of life, faded away, and the pugilistic Newt Gingrich ascended.—
Ed Burmila,
The New Republic,
15 June 2022
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Many African American activists had broken with King, advocating Black Power rather than racial reconciliation, abandoning nonviolence, and denouncing King as an accommodationist.—
Drew Gilpin Faust,
The Atlantic,
18 July 2019
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“Subverter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subverter. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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