running dog

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for running dog
Noun
  • The four-minute video comes as Amazon prepares to launch its first production satellites into orbit on Wednesday.
    Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Bates’ investment got a boost Friday when the U.S. Space Force awarded SpaceX a $5.9 billion launch contract to send some of the Pentagon’s most sensitive satellites into space.
    Eric Jackson, Sportico.com, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • First-time head coach Campo was a good company man, and solid defensive coordinator.
    Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Jan. 2025
  • In 2014, Microsoft surprised people by promoting the ultimate company man, Satya Nadella, to CEO.
    Steven Levy, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Musk and his hacker minions have blown into departments, demanding access to highly sensitive data in pursuit of finding waste, fraud, and abuse—often making cuts and promoting the reductions before fully understanding what was going on.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Decisions made today by Trump and his minions will affect our children and our children’s children for years to come.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 19 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The Doom Slayer was a slave to capitalism in Doom (2016), the soft reboot that revived the franchise, and his now-origins as a slave to a religious theocracy sounds like something that could be cool as hell to explore.
    Kazuma Hashimoto, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Freelancers and side hustle professionals who understand how to scale are ultimately able to regain control of their time and not become a slave to their side hustle.
    Rachel Wells, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • His other performances included as Robert De Niro’s nasty henchman in Michael Mann’s Heat (1995); as Marlon Brando’s insane assistant in John Frankenheimer’s The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996) and as the suave crook Simon Templar in Phillip Noyce’s The Saint (1997).
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 2 Apr. 2025
  • The not-so-grand finale of Reacher’s third season opens with a gun battle that leaves an entire ATF Special Response Team dead, along with a commensurate number of henchmen that Quinn flew in from somewhere.
    Chris Klimek, Vulture, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • At-home test tackles three most common STIs Chlamydia, gonorrhea and trichomoniasis are three of the most prevalent STIs in the U.S. Both chlamydia and gonorrhea are bacterial infections, while trichomoniasis is caused by a parasite.
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The tropical variety develops a parasite that can make butterflies sick and unable to reproduce.
    Madalyn Mendoza, Axios, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Creating a tower of sponge with knafeh proved challenging, though.
    Claire Turrell, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Sea Salt Slide Tin $6 Jacobsen Salt Co. A clean sponge Anyone else grossed out at the thought of using the mystery sponge that’s been sitting in your Airbnb’s sink for God knows how long?
    Alaina Chou, Bon Appetit Magazine, 3 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • But framing Paul American as a retrospection on labor, with the boys and their family and their lackeys gassing them up over and over, just isn’t that interesting.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Neither Evil Steve Jobs nor his mercenary lackey are given much of a motor and oppressive presence.
    Courtney Howard, Variety, 7 Mar. 2025
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“Running dog.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/running%20dog. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.

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