muckraker
Example Sentences
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I suspect future culture historians will view "Soylent Green" in the same manner that they today regard the 1906 novel "The Jungle" by progressive muckraker Upton Sinclair.
From Salon
Ida Tarbell, a pioneering muckraker turned Lincoln biographer, believed they were real.
From Washington Post
His Watergate reporting, with Bob Woodward at The Washington Post, brought down a presidency and inspired a generation of muckrakers.
From New York Times
“Government by party is not a means of settling things,” as the muckraker Henry Demarest Lloyd said.
From New York Times
Which is somewhat interesting with the muckrakers taking on Standard Oil, and you get to the present with some policy ideas, including things that people can do as individuals.
From The Verge
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