backstabbing

Example Sentences

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There’s a lot less backstabbing and reality nonsense that you saw in the earlier seasons.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

In nonviolent settings, it leads to mean-girl-style ostracism or political backstabbing around the corporate watercooler.

From Slate • Mar. 16, 2026

She won her first film role in 1963’s “13 Frightened Girls” as a diplomat’s daughter but found greater renown as a backstabbing schemer on the ABC soap “Peyton Place” a few years later.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026

The Murdochs have never been a traditional family - one reason why their story is said to have inspired the power struggles and backstabbing in the acclaimed TV drama, Succession.

From BBC • Dec. 23, 2025

I hadn’t recognized him in his new helmet, but it was my old backstabbing buddy Ethan Nakamura.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan