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Fleming, meanwhile, hasn’t had much to spend, and has always been somewhat of a gadfly going back to his years in the House of Representatives.

From Slate ● May 16, 2026

A gadfly candidate for mayor of Chicago, Lar Daly, secured a quirky FCC ruling.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 8, 2026

That’s because in Austin, Harrison is viewed as a gadfly, with few legislative victories or allies.

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2025

For decades, he also relished his role as a brutally insulting critic — sometimes of the bands he worked with — and a gadfly who pushed uncomfortable buttons about race, politics and sex.

From New York Times ● May 14, 2024

And the suitors mad with fear at her great sign stampeded like stung cattle by a river when the dread shimmering gadfly strikes in summer, in the flowering season, in the long-drawn days.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

So it’s time for prognosticators, observers, gadflies and political junkies to share their predictions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

And why is the work of maintaining them left to civic gadflies, even after two consecutive New York mayors have pledged to tackle the problem?

From Slate ● Apr. 25, 2023

Those are just a few of the celebrity gadflies, sycophants, grifters and weirdos he is backing.

From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2022

But there’ll be scores — perhaps hundreds — of publicity seekers, gadflies and wannabe somebodies on the ballot to replace Newsom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2021

They flit around as social butterflies when they are gadflies to me.

From Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America by Steven (Steven David Justin) Sills