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Recent Examples of stooge
With these three stooges in charge, what could possibly go wrong?
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Tom Zirpoli, Baltimore Sun, 17 Dec. 2024
Insurance commissioners have too often been industry stooges.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
When designing the characters, Terrazas was constantly thinking about contrasts; how a leader would look next to his stooges, how Páramo’s guys would be identifiable without him on screen.
—Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
The original film was about ragtag academics versus corporate stooges, but in the sequel, everyone’s out for a buck.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 16 July 2024
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Tom Zirpoli, Baltimore Sun, 17 Dec. 2024
Insurance commissioners have too often been industry stooges.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
When designing the characters, Terrazas was constantly thinking about contrasts; how a leader would look next to his stooges, how Páramo’s guys would be identifiable without him on screen.
—Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
The original film was about ragtag academics versus corporate stooges, but in the sequel, everyone’s out for a buck.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 16 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stooge
Noun
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The character with which I have been identified, that of the raucous buffoon, is merely a studied portrayal.—
Bill Wyman,
Vulture,
28 Feb. 2025
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Tedros is part mastermind, part buffoon, part cult leader, and all sleaze.—
Carrie Battan,
The New Yorker,
5 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The Liberals have been able to stop their opponent Pierre Poilievre’s momentum by painting him as a MAGA lackey.—
Helen Lewis,
The Atlantic,
16 Mar. 2025
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One of Knuckles’ many lackeys ultimately finds Rose by … going to her apartment building, where her name is prominently displayed on her mailbox?—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
6 Feb. 2025
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In Eli Craig’s (Tucker & Dale vs Evil) newest outing, the real fun starts when Frendo the clown comes out to play.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
6 Mar. 2025
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So the clown came out of him to be accepted, to be loved.—
Stephanie Nolasco,
Fox News,
1 Mar. 2025
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What may be worse is that a gaggle of sycophants and groupthink team members underneath the Dark Empath—the direct reports—create a ruthless echo chamber for the king or queen at the top of Mt. Stupid.—
Dan Pontefract,
Forbes,
11 Mar. 2025
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Of course, Veep’s sycophants, buffoons, and backstabbers bear little resemblance to the vanguard of our latest regime.—
Judy Berman,
TIME,
20 Feb. 2025
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After the release of Elden Ring, a famously difficult bestseller, Musk posted a screenshot of his character, but his build instantly exposed him as a poser.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes,
14 Jan. 2025
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This poser is hard to work through when we are only given the text.—
Jack Murtagh,
Scientific American,
14 Jan. 2025
Noun
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In Lynch’s festering neo-noir mystery from 1987, Hopper plays a chronic villain perpetually sipping from a tank of amyl nitrate and handing out hits as a way to manipulate his henchmen.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
14 Mar. 2025
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Back in Montana, every trip Jacob and company take to Bozeman and back is inevitably fraught with peril — if not instigated by dastardly rich guy Donald Whitfield (Timothy Dalton) and/or his henchman Banner Creighton (Jerome Flynn), then by the pitiless nature of extreme weather.—
Matt Brennan,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Mar. 2025
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Once infused with the diabolical spirit, the guide is transformed into a buffoon, complete with a harlequin outfit—a mad joker and a dancing fool who does a little jig to the sound of a jazz trio.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
11 Mar. 2025
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But this harlequin moll can’t match Joker’s lunacy as either lawbreaker or musician.—
Armond White,
National Review,
29 Nov. 2024
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Tatlin scholarship is whispery on his time in Kyiv, for the excellent reason that Stalin’s minions torched most evidence of it.—
Jackson Arn,
The New Yorker,
10 Mar. 2025
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But the largest driving force behind the return-to-work mandates, suggest the early scholarship, is CEOs feeling lonely without minions.—
Dan Vergano,
Scientific American,
12 Feb. 2025
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“Stooge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stooge. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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