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as in thug
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Recent Examples of enforcer
His enforcer — his No. 2 — was his younger brother Maher.
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Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 27 Jan. 2025
The former enforcer cycled through the use of Perocet to numb pain and Sudafed to get hyped up before a game.
—Joshua Kloke, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
And in addition to his announcement Tuesday, FTC’s Ferguson recently tapped a deputy known as an aggressive antitrust enforcer.
—Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 20 Feb. 2025
With Trump's hardline immigration stance taking center stage in his first 100 days, Republican officials and immigration enforcers like Homan may continue to challenge Democrats who advocate for immigrant rights.
—Matt Robison, Newsweek, 18 Feb. 2025
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Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 27 Jan. 2025
The former enforcer cycled through the use of Perocet to numb pain and Sudafed to get hyped up before a game.
—Joshua Kloke, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
And in addition to his announcement Tuesday, FTC’s Ferguson recently tapped a deputy known as an aggressive antitrust enforcer.
—Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 20 Feb. 2025
With Trump's hardline immigration stance taking center stage in his first 100 days, Republican officials and immigration enforcers like Homan may continue to challenge Democrats who advocate for immigrant rights.
—Matt Robison, Newsweek, 18 Feb. 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
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Jewish people in the U.S. have adopted a position of ‘support Netanyahu and his thugs irrespective of the political cost’ approach.—
Chris Stirewalt,
The Hill,
14 Mar. 2025
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The thug in the seat next to him had 14 prior arrests and went by the name of killer.—
NPR,
NPR,
5 Mar. 2025
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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
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He was deployed to Panama as a part of Operation Just Cause, a U.S. mission that ended with the surrender of the Central American country's dictator, Gen. Manuel Noriega.—
Ashley Hume,
Fox News,
14 Mar. 2025
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As Catholic journalist and historian Emilio Mignone has documented, would-be dictators General Jorge Rafael Videla and Admiral Emilio Massera met with church leaders the night before their March 1976 coup and on the day itself, receiving guarantees of support.—
Federico Perelmuter,
The Dial,
13 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Russo also tasked him to try and shut down a gambling operation at the Gran Caffe in Lynbrook, L.I., which was funneling money to both the Bonanno and Genovese families, the mobster testified.—
John Annese,
New York Daily News,
26 Feb. 2025
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What happened with investigating [the mobster] and trying to put him away, and what happened to Eddie, and what happened with his father.—
Vlada Gelman,
TVLine,
23 Feb. 2025
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Laws, amendments, and constitutions have never mattered to tyrants, particularly those tyrants forced with making and enforcing laws, amendments, and constitutions.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
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That’s classically how a demagogue works and how a demagogue becomes a tyrant.—
Sean Illing,
Vox,
22 Feb. 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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While President Herbert Hoover had waged a war against kidnappers and racketeers, Roosevelt amplified the effort dramatically, pushed it in new directions, and overcame the jurisdictional, racial, partisan, and class divisions that had previously obstructed the law-and-order state.—
Anthony Gregory / Made by History,
TIME,
23 July 2024
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