stooge
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So, what’s a stooge like me to do?
From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2024
Then again, Myn has a reason for stonewalling Hera – he's an Imperial stooge wearing the cloak of a businessman.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2023
Truss turned out to be a stooge for Boris Johnson, Maureen Dowd writes.
From New York Times ● Oct. 23, 2022
However, Limann was seen by many as a mere stooge for Rawlings and his failure to turn Ghana's economy round soon brought his time in office to an end.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2020
The kid was Leon’s bookkeeper and probably his stooge.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
Take, for instance, the three stooges of “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
Albeit his stooges would not be the three of yesteryear’s Hollywood, Larry, Moe and Shemp.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 18, 2023
But the music is anything but impersonal, and the album’s biggest hit, “Crossover,” is an indictment of sellouts and corporate stooges.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2022
“The Dumb Waiter” lampoons the subservience to authoritarian power by focusing on the behavior of the stooges.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2021
The student body watched with glee as Leon’s stooges tried to scotch-tape the posters to the wall at the rear of the stage.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
Back in the U.S., he stooged for other entertainers, even held fans for Sally Rand.
From Time Magazine Archive
Georgia drifted into a period of stooging for most of the top funny men: Hope, Durante, Frank Morgan, Milton Berle, Danny Kaye.
From Time Magazine Archive
Anything else is just "stooging," which is flyers' slang for pooping around.
From Time Magazine Archive
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