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Recent Examples of enforcer
Ray was an enforcer and defender who split the center position with shot-blocker George Johnson and a catalyst for an out-of-nowhere NBA title in 1975.
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Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2025
Moments after Attorney General Merrick Garland delivered a farewell address to his staff, Kristen Clarke returned to her office in the Justice Department to reflect on her own legacy as the nation’s top civil rights enforcer.
—N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2025
Stanley offers a certain type of physicality but is miscast as an enforcer.
—Murat Ates, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
With its flinty, morbid humor and collection of eccentric characters—including a star turn by Jamie Lee Curtis as a tough mafia enforcer named Bo Shea—The Sticky is definitely channeling the Cohn brothers' Fargo.
—Ars Technica, 24 Dec. 2024
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Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2025
Moments after Attorney General Merrick Garland delivered a farewell address to his staff, Kristen Clarke returned to her office in the Justice Department to reflect on her own legacy as the nation’s top civil rights enforcer.
—N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2025
Stanley offers a certain type of physicality but is miscast as an enforcer.
—Murat Ates, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
With its flinty, morbid humor and collection of eccentric characters—including a star turn by Jamie Lee Curtis as a tough mafia enforcer named Bo Shea—The Sticky is definitely channeling the Cohn brothers' Fargo.
—Ars Technica, 24 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for enforcer
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Both were industrious strivers at work and strict disciplinarians at home.—
Danielle Amir Jackson,
The Atlantic,
27 Feb. 2025
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After three years with John Fox, Pace didn’t need to fully reset the culture inside Halas Hall and bring in an experienced disciplinarian because Fox had helped clean up the mess left behind by the Phil Emery/Marc Trestman administration.—
Adam Jahns,
The Athletic,
5 Jan. 2025
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The 20th-century Yellowstone Dutton Ranch is under siege from a greedy developer (James Bond star Timothy Dalton) and his thugs in the new season.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA TODAY,
24 Feb. 2025
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But authorities now believe the most heinous acts were the handiwork of a one-time nursing student from Puerto Rico who evolved over a decade from teenage burglar to drug trafficker to rampaging thug.—
Martin E. Comas,
Orlando Sentinel,
30 Jan. 2025
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Go From Managing Tasks To Developing People One of the most significant mindset shifts great leaders make is moving from manager as taskmaster to manager as developer.—
Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio,
Forbes,
4 Mar. 2025
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On March 2, Mercury will join your taskmaster ruler, Saturn, bringing a more serious tone to your communication style.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
3 Mar. 2025
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In her ethnographic study of Jamaican gangs, Jaffe argues against seeing the neighborhood strongmen—or dons—as primarily violent, exploitative gangsters.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
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Lives are literally on the line in Vivian Qu’s genre hybrid Girls on Wire, a surprisingly gritty study of people left behind or living in the margins that fuses gangster realism with social drama and leavens both with a dash of unexpected humor.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
18 Feb. 2025
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Apparently, for Trump, Ukraine's continuing resistance to invasion constitutes something of a nuisance that threatens to get in the way of making deals with a brutal dictator.—
Bradley Gitz,
arkansasonline.com,
3 Mar. 2025
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In October of 2023, Hamas militants attacked Israel and in an unforeseen chain of events Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was overthrown.—
Kevin Kruse,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
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Prosecutors are basing their case against Rosario on testimony by Russo, Zummo and Rubino — all mobsters looking to avoid lengthy prison sentences, Rosario’s defense attorney Louis Freeman told the jury.—
John Annese,
New York Daily News,
25 Feb. 2025
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James Gandolfini played mobster Tony Soprano for all six seasons of The Sopranos.—
Armando Tinoco,
Deadline,
25 Feb. 2025
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John Lithgow plays an elderly care home tyrant out to drive an arrogant and partially paralyzed judge, played by Geoffrey Rush, insane in the official trailer for The Rule of Jenny Pen, which dropped Monday.—
Etan Vlessing,
The Hollywood Reporter,
24 Feb. 2025
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The Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth of tyrants, back-to-back.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes,
23 Feb. 2025
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Oh yeah, this relationship with this 38-year-old racketeer is so beautiful.—
Michael Cuby,
Them,
1 Aug. 2024
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While President Herbert Hoover had waged a war against kidnappers and racketeers, Roosevelt amplified the effort dramatically, pushed it in new directions, and overcame the jurisdictional, racial, partisan, and class divisions that had previously obstructed the law-and-order state.—
Anthony Gregory / Made by History,
TIME,
23 July 2024
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“Enforcer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enforcer. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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