How to Use wheeler-dealer in a Sentence
wheeler-dealer
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Imagine what a shrewd, wheeler-dealer type could do with the Pirates.
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Ken Rosenthal,
New York Times,
10 Sep. 2025
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Nelson is a Willy Loman, a failing wheeler-dealer and big talker with no game to back him up.
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Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
26 Sep. 2025
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Bordeaux’s rise was fuelled by Claude Bez, a wheeler-dealer who ran an accounting firm.
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Michael Cox,
New York Times,
11 Mar. 2026
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Foremost, general manager John Schneider, 54, showed he’s evolved into a top-tier talent man and wheeler-dealer.
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Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Feb. 2026
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His father was a wheeler-dealer who lived by quick wits and the sweat of his brow, dabbling in bootlegged sake, swine farming, loan sharking, and later pachinko parlors—Japan’s ubiquitous low-stakes gambling game of clattering steel ball bearings.
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Charlie Campbell,
Time,
24 Feb. 2026
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