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Recent Examples of hatchet man
While he was sent by the White House to be a hatchet man, Oz, a cardiothoracic surgeon, should use a scalpel with care, conducting a real, legitimate probe that seeks ways to save money for taxpayers and improve outcomes for patients.
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New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
13 Mar. 2026
In 2010, the duo separated, going opposite directions; Malice sought repentance through the church while Pusha became a hatchet man for Kanye West.
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Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
19 Dec. 2025
Arthur is known as Conkling’s hatchet man, a customs collector for the Port of New York who’s shown, in one amusing snippet, presiding over the beating of a noncompliant businessman.
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Scott Tobias,
Vulture,
6 Nov. 2025
The White House and its hatchet men attacking culture are coming for the artists, curators, museum directors, docents, writers, and editors who value freedom and liberation and Black history and women’s history and ideas and progress.
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Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
Back home, more pink slips for federal employees go out and the scrutiny of Elon Musk's role as the hatchet man for those agencies intensifies.
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CBS News,
16 Feb. 2025
Musician and producer Grimes made a rare comment involving her ex-partner and father to her three kids, Elon Musk, after their 4-year-old son appeared alongside the tech mogul turned government hatchet man at the White House on Wednesday.
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Kevin Dolak,
The Hollywood Reporter,
12 Feb. 2025
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
13 Mar. 2026
In 2010, the duo separated, going opposite directions; Malice sought repentance through the church while Pusha became a hatchet man for Kanye West.
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Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
19 Dec. 2025
Arthur is known as Conkling’s hatchet man, a customs collector for the Port of New York who’s shown, in one amusing snippet, presiding over the beating of a noncompliant businessman.
—
Scott Tobias,
Vulture,
6 Nov. 2025
The White House and its hatchet men attacking culture are coming for the artists, curators, museum directors, docents, writers, and editors who value freedom and liberation and Black history and women’s history and ideas and progress.
—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
Back home, more pink slips for federal employees go out and the scrutiny of Elon Musk's role as the hatchet man for those agencies intensifies.
—
CBS News,
16 Feb. 2025
Musician and producer Grimes made a rare comment involving her ex-partner and father to her three kids, Elon Musk, after their 4-year-old son appeared alongside the tech mogul turned government hatchet man at the White House on Wednesday.
—
Kevin Dolak,
The Hollywood Reporter,
12 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hatchet man
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Pulte, the 38-year-old director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, is best known for his role as a partisan attack dog for the president.
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Activists detained when their flotilla attempted to breach Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza say they have been mistreated at the hands of Israeli soldiers, describing beatings, tasers and attack dogs.
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Joe Biden sued the Justice Department on Tuesday in an effort to block the release of audio recordings and transcripts of the former president’s interview with a ghostwriter that were obtained by the special counsel who investigated his handling of classified documents.
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Joe Biden sued the DOJ to block the release of audio recordings and transcripts of conversations with the ghostwriter of his 2017 memoir.
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One woman scheduled a viewing to say goodbye to her almost-3-year-old pit bull, his muscular, auburn body now lifeless.
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The 2026 World's Cutest Rescue Dog winner will join the ranks of phenomenal pups, like 2024 winner rescue pit bull, Margot, and the one-eyed winner before her, Hobie.
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Powering the portable scribbler is 1.7-GHz dual-core processing supported by 2 GB of RAM and 64 GB of internal storage.
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All remaining scribblers should lay down their squibs and come out, squinting, arms aloft in surrender.
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Karina Dixit, a housewife of fifty-six, wept before Durga perched on her marble tiger.
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Alligators, crocodiles, lions, tigers, and bears might have to become supper.
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Some campaigns mix traditional ad films with sponsorship hacks, platform plays, and one piece of kit design that turned a referee’s uniform into a punchline.
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The first swing was a powerful uppercut, the type of grown-man hack synonymous with no-doubters and moonshots.
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Antonia Fraser, the biographer and historian, will be present, as will Tina Brown, the former editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker and one of the most influential voices in transatlantic media.
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According to biographer Robert Jobson, a suspicious Prince William was anxious that Meghan would wear his mother’s jewels during the wedding.
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Waititi and cowriter Dahvi Waller were able to weave together an uplifting, warm story starring Jenna Ortega as Klara, the Artificial Friend who is adopted by a woman (Amy Adams) as a companion for her daughter Josie (Mia Tharia).
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By populating the green with so many conflicting personalities, director and cowriter Harold Ramis makes golf seem both monumentally silly and, despite its staid trappings, unexpectedly freewheeling.
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