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Recent Examples of myrmidon
The message from the leftist Democrats and their odious myrmidons in the media, Hollywood, academia, Big Tech, et al is thus: Agree with our narrative or be destroyed.
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Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 3 June 2024
In the pending merger of Sprint and T-Mobile, our myrmidons have a chance to do better.
—Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 11 May 2018
OK, first of all, George III didn't have myrmidons.
—Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 20 Mar. 2014
Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 3 June 2024
In the pending merger of Sprint and T-Mobile, our myrmidons have a chance to do better.
—Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 11 May 2018
OK, first of all, George III didn't have myrmidons.
—Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 20 Mar. 2014
Recent Examples of Synonyms for myrmidon
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Joseph Quinn and Fred Hechinger, under white powder and red eye shadow like Joker sycophants.Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
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But that progress will be harder to forge if Trump follows through on his vow to mass fire civil servants and replace them with sycophants.Kenny Torrella, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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Among the most glaring examples is Ninth Division Commander Gen. Roh Tae-gun (Park Jae-hoon, excellent), a weak-willed lackey seduced by power and greed who’s based on Roh Tae-woo, Chun’s successor as president in 1988.Richard Kuipers, Variety, 17 Dec. 2024
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Americans, beware: Putin and his lackeys are not your friends.Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
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The tornado that destroys DG’s family farm is a mode of inter-dimensional transportation used by the evil witch’s henchmen.Emma Stefansky, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2024
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As fits his elevated role, Páramo has henchmen to do his bidding, like Fulgor Sedano (Héctor Kotsifakis).Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
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Not so, for minions who might break the law doing Trump's dirty work.Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
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The first 10 minutes of the game are called the Laning Phase, and you're expected to stay in your lane and begin taking out minions and collecting souls to help your team start leveling up.Omar L. Gallaga, WIRED, 29 Sep. 2024
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The murder of Jewish talk radio host Alan Berg in 1984 by two of Mathews’ acolytes brought the Order to national attention 30 years ago and inspired not one but two Hollywood films in that decade—Betrayed and Oliver Stone’s Talk Radio.Ali Winston, WIRED, 6 Dec. 2024
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Meanwhile, her sister, Tula, is back on Wallach IX, standing over the body of a promising acolyte, Lila, who has not regained consciousness after going through the Agony and meeting with a hostile reception on the other side.Scott Tobias, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2024
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Still, for a long time, the main difficulty for soldiers who needed amputations was surviving long after the operation.Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
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The terror group killed thousands, predominantly targeting men and elderly women, while abducting boys to forcibly conscript them as child soldiers.Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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The latest iteration of Venezuela’s long-running crisis began after the head of the National Electoral Council, a Maduro apparatchik, declared him the victor on July 29th, with fifty-one per cent of the vote to forty-four per cent for González.Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2024
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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is a laconic apparatchik who lacks the imagination to deal with complicated situations.Eric Edelman, Foreign Affairs, 2 Jan. 2023
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These satellite photos show how the Franklin fire threatened neighborhoods.Hunter Clauss, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2024
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The minute-long footage starts by showing train locomotives on fire and then segues into a satellite image of an airport, as well as images of a plane on the tarmac which has flames billowing out of the undercarriage.Stephan Pechdimaldji, Newsweek, 14 Dec. 2024
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“Myrmidon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/myrmidon. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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