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At the party convention, speaker after speaker denounced Tusk, characterizing him as a German stooge.
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Luke Johnson, The New Republic, 13 Oct. 2023
That’s character in literature: not a stooge in your reverie of fair play and sound politics, but a creature of his time.
—Andrew O’Hagan, The New York Review of Books, 2 Mar. 2023
How to not feel like a needy buzzkill, and how to not make your friends feel like stooges.
—Tom Rasmussen, Vogue, 23 Feb. 2023
There was also a fiendishly complicated mind-reading act based on a memorized system of word clues relayed by the stooge to the sham mentalist.
—Edward Kosner, WSJ, 26 May 2021
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Luke Johnson, The New Republic, 13 Oct. 2023
That’s character in literature: not a stooge in your reverie of fair play and sound politics, but a creature of his time.
—Andrew O’Hagan, The New York Review of Books, 2 Mar. 2023
How to not feel like a needy buzzkill, and how to not make your friends feel like stooges.
—Tom Rasmussen, Vogue, 23 Feb. 2023
There was also a fiendishly complicated mind-reading act based on a memorized system of word clues relayed by the stooge to the sham mentalist.
—Edward Kosner, WSJ, 26 May 2021
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“Stooge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stooge. Accessed 11 Aug. 2024.
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