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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stalking horse
Noun
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Edwards is one of England’s brightest stars, and the crowd will be in full effect for one of their favorite sons.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes,
1 Dec. 2024
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Plains is a tourist town, and President Carter is our favorite son.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
5 Jan. 2025
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By leveraging this data, businesses can deliver more personalized experiences, improve customer satisfaction and stay ahead of competitors in understanding and addressing customer needs.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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In this instance, a for-profit company not only managed to keep its prices lower than its competitors, including nonprofits, but used its patent to support economic development in developing countries by shielding startup producers from international competition.—
Bernard Leca,
The Conversation,
25 Feb. 2025
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The big picture: Once there are rumblings of a CEO shakeup, experts told Axios that comms teams should prepare plans based on typical successor profiles — an inside hire, a dark horse or outsider, and a known industry leader.—
Eleanor Hawkins,
Axios,
13 Feb. 2025
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Could Apple’s new AI capabilities perhaps be a looming, bandwidth-consuming dark horse?—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
9 Feb. 2025
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As their ranks diminish, park rangers say fewer employees could mean long entry lines, dirty bathrooms and potentially unsafe conditions for hikers and campers during the busy tourist season.—
Alicia Victoria Lozano,
NBC News,
21 Feb. 2025
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These entries are often meant as the apex predator for a particular type of monster.—
Rob Wieland,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2025
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This affordable shower faucet set is a fan favorite.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Feb. 2025
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And through coach after coach after coach, the midfielder is still here, a fan and coach favorite who has become pretty synonymous with the city of Charlotte.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
19 Feb. 2025
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Fights like that, which for years proved almost impossible to negotiate, have taken place thanks to the millions of dollars put on the table by Turki al-Sheikh, a government official with close ties to the kingdom’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman.—
Tariq Panja,
New York Times,
8 Jan. 2025
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Under Bill’s leadership, the foundation inked a deal in Saudi Arabia last November to partner with the country’s crown prince, Mohammad Bin Salman, on a new program of up to $2.5 billion to support nonprofits.—
Forbes Wealth Team,
Forbes,
3 Feb. 2025
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A number of her fellow Bachelor Nation alums chimed in to provide support, including Kaitlyn Bristowe, Becca Kufrin, JoJo Fletcher, Clare Crawley and Jenn Tran, as well as fellow Season 17 Bachelorette contestants Justin Glaze and Andrew Spencer.—
Natalie Oganesyan,
Deadline,
15 Feb. 2025
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In the third round, each contestant was required to do a dunk with a teammate.—
Marcus Thompson II,
The Athletic,
15 Feb. 2025
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In a preview of Sunday’s All-Star mini-tournament, the Rising Stars group also was divided into three squads with a fourth entrant comprised of G League players completing the bracket.—
Jared Weiss,
The Athletic,
15 Feb. 2025
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, various entrants on the list have been the subject of past De Los stories (LA Libreria, Avocado Heights Vaquer@s) or have served as the setting for them (Eastern Projects, Latino Theater Company).—
Fidel Martinez,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Feb. 2025
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