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lackey

[lak-ee] / ˈlæk i /


NOUN
servile follower
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“We are not an island state,” Lackey said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026

Fellow climber Julia Lackey, who has worked in Yosemite for the past two seasons, agreed the situation is "really scary."

From Barron's • Nov. 1, 2025

High-profile users, like fantasy author Mercedes R. Lackey, are removing their work from their profiles and writing notes explaining why.

From Slate • Feb. 2, 2024

Republican Assemblymember Tom Lackey, one of the bill’s co-authors, said lawmakers aren’t “against technology,” but they see the bill as a safer way for companies to test self-driving trucks.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 19, 2023

“They call it the land of opportunity, and I don’t think that’s changed much,” said Diana Lackey, a sixty-year-old homemaker and wife of a retired contractor in Fulton, New York, near Syracuse.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times




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