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Recent Examples of enforcer
The former Minnesota Wild enforcer's job will be to dissuade opponents from bullying Bedard.
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Justin Kaufmann, Axios, 8 Oct. 2024
In the interim, Solo physically excommunicated Jimmy Uso from The Bloodline six months ago and started his own version of the group with Jacob Fatu as his enforcer.
—Shaheem Reid, Variety, 8 Oct. 2024
The Vietnamese foreign ministry said in a statement that Chinese law enforcers beat the Vietnamese fishermen and took away their fishing equipment when their boat was operating near Hoang Sa, Vietnam’s name for the Paracel Islands.
—Reuters, CNN, 2 Oct. 2024
So if there are no more injuries, the competition might just come down to whether the Sharks want to keep an enforcer like Givani Smith, a more skilled player like Cardwell or Gushchin.
—Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2024
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Justin Kaufmann, Axios, 8 Oct. 2024
In the interim, Solo physically excommunicated Jimmy Uso from The Bloodline six months ago and started his own version of the group with Jacob Fatu as his enforcer.
—Shaheem Reid, Variety, 8 Oct. 2024
The Vietnamese foreign ministry said in a statement that Chinese law enforcers beat the Vietnamese fishermen and took away their fishing equipment when their boat was operating near Hoang Sa, Vietnam’s name for the Paracel Islands.
—Reuters, CNN, 2 Oct. 2024
So if there are no more injuries, the competition might just come down to whether the Sharks want to keep an enforcer like Givani Smith, a more skilled player like Cardwell or Gushchin.
—Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for enforcer
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Bernard Parks, chief from 1997 to 2002, had a reputation as a tough disciplinarian, which frequently put him at odds with the police union.Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2024
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They're perceived as harsh disciplinarians, primarily concerned with academic achievement.Josh Feldman, NBC News, 17 June 2024
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The climax, in which Dwight and his crew beat a group of nameless Chinese immigrant thugs into submission after they’re used as cannon fodder by Cal Thresher to sabotage Dwight’s wind turbines, is more important to the plot and even uglier.Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2024
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Like other Diablo games, Hades would support cooperative multiplayer, but in the Arkham games, groups of thugs would circle around the Dark Knight, comic-book style, waiting to be punched in the face.Jason Schreier, WIRED, 8 Oct. 2024
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Saturn, the taskmaster planet, is considered a symbol of structure, discipline, responsibility and authority.Valerie Mesa, People.com, 4 Nov. 2024
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Governed by the taskmaster planet, Capricorns are often the voice of reason, much like Dr. Phil himself.Valerie Mesa, People.com, 28 Oct. 2024
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Many Japanese action films are too much about fantasy, either Yakuza [gangsters] or serial killers.Patrick Frater, Variety, 1 Nov. 2024
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Tyler takes aim at the masks people wear to hide from their true selves, evoking a middle-class gangster and a closeted religious zealot.Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2024
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Trump, who has praised the Russian dictator and refused to vocally support Ukraine, would sooner hop on a three-way phone call with Musk and Putin.Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
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Throughout his presidency, Trump fawned over such dictators.Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 5 Nov. 2024
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Then, there was Tommy Heffernan’s Body Buddies, a dark comedy where a wedding photographer and a mobster keep a body hidden in the middle of an engagement shoot.Matt Grobar, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2024
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Another tweet depicted John Wick, Keanu Reeves' fictional movie character who goes on a killing spree after his beloved dog is killed by a mobster, and warned that denizens of the web may react similarly.Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 2 Nov. 2024
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Foreign policy Advertisement Harris says U.S. foreign policy should be based on strong alliances with other democracies, not cynical partnerships with tyrants like Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping.Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
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The greatest of all tyrants thunders onto screen in this thrilling story of fossil discovery by three young boys.Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 27 Oct. 2024
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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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“Enforcer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enforcer. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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