cronies

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Cronies, located on Kanan Road, continued to serve diners outdoors, disregarding the county health order issued in November 2020 in the face of rising COVID-19 cases.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2021

Franklin Roosevelt’s Brain Trust of the 1930s and Harry Truman’s Cronies in the late 1940s were in the same mold.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2016

Santos described a modified pump and dump: Cronies controlling virtually all of the shares had set a trap for short sellers by lending them stock, he posited.

From BusinessWeek • Jul. 24, 2014

Cronies and capitols IN 1994 many Italians voted for Silvio Berlusconi in the hope that he could use his skills as a businessman to revive a sclerotic economy.

From Economist • Aug. 8, 2013

Cronies of theirs in other squadrons began dropping in unashamedly and using the tent as a hangout.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller