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apple polisher


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One late-season episode gratifyingly breaks the mold, centering on an overly eager elementary school apple-polisher who . . . well, let’s not spoil it.

From Salon May 8, 2025

Kagan should get a special apple-polisher certificate by volunteering that hers was her antitrust professor — Breyer.

From Washington Post Oct. 26, 2017

Jimmy Fallon is nothing more than a garden variety apple polisher -- his generation's Jay Leno.

From New York Times Sep. 20, 2016

Among Beck’s qualities: he’s young, malleable, fleet, accurate, gung ho, and an apple polisher.

From Washington Post Jul. 28, 2011




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