stalking horse

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Recent Examples of stalking horse Horowitz sold him some forty archives and collections, for about $25 million, and routinely used him as a sounding board and a stalking horse. Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024 Driving the news: Discount retail chain Big Lots entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy last week, with a stalking horse agreement to boot. Kimberly Chin, Axios, 16 Sep. 2024 Lids' opening bid, known as the stalking horse bid, is 62% of the cost value of the retailer's inventory on hand at the time of the sale's closure date, estimated to equal about $4.25 million. Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 10 Sep. 2024 Hezbollah remains a potent regional actor: a stalking horse for Iran, and a prop to the Syrian regime. Bilal Y. Saab, Foreign Affairs, 21 Jan. 2015 See all Example Sentences for stalking horse 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stalking horse
Noun
  • Plains is a tourist town, and President Carter is our favorite son.
    CBS News, CBS News, 5 Jan. 2025
  • In 2023, Atlanta’s favorite son, Andre 3000, all but shut the door on his rap career by releasing a flute album and insisting that rapping is a young man’s sport.
    Maurice Garland, SPIN, 19 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • America’s competitors and adversaries are under real and growing pressure, even as their greater isolation draws them closer together.
    Jake Sullivan, TIME, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Think big, think strategically – Rather than trying to keep pace with competitors, outmaneuver them.
    Forbes, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Stroman now has zero posts on Instagram, and also has a profile picture of a dark horse.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Nosferatu is a late-inning surprise, not just at the box office — especially for a horror film opening on Christmas Day — but possibly a dark horse the studio now thinks could get some Oscar love.
    Pete Hammond, Deadline, 3 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The film was Kenya’s official entry for the best international feature film category of the Oscars.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Its biggest problems all come from factors outside its control, such as the decline in foot traffic post-pandemic, the continued rise of e-commerce, falling insurer reimbursement rates for prescriptions, and the entry of big players like Walmart, Costco, and Amazon into pharmacy services.
    Dev Patnaik, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • With more than 59,000 perfect ratings, these headphones are a clear favorite among Amazon shoppers.
    Maggie Horton, People.com, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Still, Barkley was a fan favorite, and a team favorite, too, reportedly adored in the locker room.
    Becky Sullivan, NPR, 25 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Saudi Arabia's crown prince and prime minister, , has laid down Palestinian rights and a road map to a Palestinian state as a condition of normalization.
    Ellie Cook, Newsweek, 19 Jan. 2025
  • The Gulf has emirs, crown princes, and kings who flatter him.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The host, 50, took a tumble on a recent episode of Wheel of Fortune after a contestant guessed the correct answer in the final seconds of the bonus round and got overly excited.
    Liza Esquibias, People.com, 23 Jan. 2025
  • And competing for this five million dollars are these one-thousand contestants.
    Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Those years of tinkering on wider use cases, Lin argued, have now paid off as Clay’s software is more technically robust and capable of handling new AI features than a new entrant would.
    Alex Konrad, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Again, for a new entrant, that would be a very helpful boost.
    Luke Smith, The Athletic, 15 Jan. 2025

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“Stalking horse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stalking%20horse. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.

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