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Noun
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The American president is a traitor to the democratic world.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
24 Apr. 2025 -
If that isn’t pressure enough, the women are faced with a mysterious traitor who emerges, years later, as the three friends are torn apart.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
25 Mar. 2025
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The music legend returns to the summit of the Official Albums chart this frame with a brand new release — and a new collaborator credited alongside him on the throne.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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Paulson, meanwhile, has an array of projects in the works, including All's Fair — a television series that sees her reunite with longtime collaborator Ryan Murphy and star alongside Glenn Close, Naomi Watts, Niecy Nash, Kim Kardashian, Teyana Taylor and more.—
Nicholas Rice,
People.com,
13 Apr. 2025
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Along the way, Rhodes was the driving force behind WWE’s sellout streak, its booming merchandise sales and its general uptick in quality.—
Blake Oestriecher,
Forbes.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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Over two days last week, the sellout eliminated more than $6 trillion in market value in the U.S. alone.—
Mike Lillis,
The Hill,
7 Apr. 2025
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Many countries have a great turncoat in their history.—
Matthew J. Friedman,
CNN Money,
1 Apr. 2025
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This is all happening because the person who’s supposed to be leading the charge against the spread of communicable disease is something of a turncoat, instead working to increase our vulnerability to these pathogens.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
28 Feb. 2025
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But the president's new FTC chair, Andrew Ferguson, is an outspoken Big Tech critic on X and is signaling the panel won't be stacked with pro-industry quislings.—
Marc Caputo,
Axios,
10 Feb. 2025
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Erdogan, meanwhile, lambasted Kilicdaroglu as a quisling who is in cahoots with the West and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, a Kurdish separatist group that both Ankara and Washington consider a terrorist entity.—
Nabih Bulos,
Los Angeles Times,
28 May 2023
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The primary conspirators behind the Oklahoma City bombing were Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols.—
Alex Gurley,
People.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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The season 1 finale finally revealed the identity of the pharmaceutical conspirator, and also introduced a key new character and a surprise pregnancy.—
Wesley Stenzel,
EW.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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Notable film credits include The Tragedy of Macbeth, Judas and the Black Messiah, and Crown Heights.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
22 Apr. 2025
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According to a news release from the Illinois Lottery, the man who identified himself San Judas Tadeo bought a $10,000,000 Bankroll lottery ticket at a gas station in Chicago.—
Fernando Cervantes Jr.,
USA Today,
22 Apr. 2025
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Bob Michel, the longtime accommodationist who treated Democratic House majorities as an unalterable fact of life, faded away, and the pugilistic Newt Gingrich ascended.—
Ed Burmila,
The New Republic,
15 June 2022
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Many African American activists had broken with King, advocating Black Power rather than racial reconciliation, abandoning nonviolence, and denouncing King as an accommodationist.—
Drew Gilpin Faust,
The Atlantic,
18 July 2019
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