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Recent Examples of lapdog
The company’s founder and CEO, Tom Stevens, says the idea to create the robotic lapdog came from his mother, who had to give up her real dog after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.
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Rena Goldman,
EverydayHealth.com,
7 Jan. 2026
The ultimate souvenir for visitors to Yellowstone National Park early that summer was a closeup of Sylvia, a 225-pound grizzly bear, and her trio of cubs, each of whom was no larger than a lapdog.
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JSTOR Daily,
19 Nov. 2025
Trump—through his lapdog chair of the FCC—is creating the fear & intimidation that serves an instrument of authoritarian power.
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James Bickerton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Sep. 2025
History is strewn with the wreckage of dictatorships that have attracted and promoted incompetent lapdogs lacking talent or integrity.
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Robert B. Reich,
Hartford Courant,
21 Aug. 2025
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Rena Goldman,
EverydayHealth.com,
7 Jan. 2026
The ultimate souvenir for visitors to Yellowstone National Park early that summer was a closeup of Sylvia, a 225-pound grizzly bear, and her trio of cubs, each of whom was no larger than a lapdog.
—
JSTOR Daily,
19 Nov. 2025
Trump—through his lapdog chair of the FCC—is creating the fear & intimidation that serves an instrument of authoritarian power.
—
James Bickerton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Sep. 2025
History is strewn with the wreckage of dictatorships that have attracted and promoted incompetent lapdogs lacking talent or integrity.
—
Robert B. Reich,
Hartford Courant,
21 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lapdog
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The first, Jim O’Neill, is a biotech entrepreneur who lacks a degree in medicine or public health and was widely seen as a yes-man for Kennedy.
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During the rollout of ChatGPT’s GPT-4o model in 2025, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman agreed with X users that the chatbot had a problem with being a yes-man.
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My family had a boisterous rescue dog, who was full-grown but often acted like a puppy.
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In 2017, still a puppy, he was rescued from abandonment and mistreatment by the Asociación Pro Defensa de los Animales, which restored his health and, with it, his chances.
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Or an Antiques Roadshow regular acting as a stooge for a real estate developer.
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Suspecting that the murder was linked to his work with the NSA, the first suspect is a Volknet stooge named Nikolai Romanov (Nikita Naydenov).
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In the pictures, each pup has a leash of a different color attached to its collar.
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Walk down the boardwalk and stairs to the New River Gorge Bridge Overlook at Canyon Rim Visitor Center to snap a pic with your pup and ogle over the longest steel arch bridge in the Western Hemisphere.
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Zoey Deutch wears minion yellow to the Los Angeles premiere of Minions & Monsters on June 28.
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And minions have taken over Wendy’s frosty machines with a new banana flavor.
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Unlikely Meathead, a whelp who spoke from a position of occasionally whiny, frequently wet-behind-the-ears insulation from life’s realities, Reiner had gray in his beard and a lengthy track record of using his podium for good.
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Chavez-DeRemer had been under scrutiny ahead of her exit from the Department of Labor, with several news outlets reporting her conduct was under investigation by the department's internal watchdog.
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At the same time, electric costs for ComEd customers in June have jumped 12%, while prices for Ameren customers downstate rose by nearly 30%, according to the Citizens Utility Board, a utility consumer watchdog group.
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“Lapdog.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lapdog. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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