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All the while, musicians — some bandmates, others hired guns — filed in and out of four different studios, as he searched for perfection.

It's not clear how much of the pro-Depp clamor was seeded by his hired guns, but in the end, they were pushing on an open door.

You might save yourself from a life filled with small-talk with hired guns who were trained to speak to you in short sentences.

ProPublica traced Zolgensma’s journey from lab to market, from the supporters there at the beginning to the hired guns brought in at the end to construct a rationale for its unprecedented price.

Fearful that this news would become public and make him look bad, Lively claims, Baldoni’s team orchestrated a smear campaign against her with the help of a hired gun named Jed Wallace.