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“A criminal could hide tonnes away and then pass them slowly, truckle by truckle, into supply chains,” says Ben Lambourne of the online retailer Pong Cheese.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2024

“It was only where there was this defiance, this refusal to truckle, this distrust of all authority, political or social, that institutions would express human aspirations, not crush them.”

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 7, 2020

Now would the assembly truckle to Parliament’s authority?

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

“His paintings make small people large, and large people tiny,” she writes, adding, “he doesn’t truckle to either.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2016

“I don’t truckle, and I hate being patronized as much as you do!” returned Amy indignantly, for the two still jangled when such questions arose.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

Dramatists have stumbled and truckled so many times attempting true-life inspirational films and TV movies; Gibson eschewed sentiment to focus on two strong wills locked in battle.

From Time ● Sep. 30, 2010

Since the "wishes" of a King's Messenger can scarcely be other than those of His Majesty's Government, Sir Austen had said nothing to disprove the unparliamentary charge that he had truckled.

From Time Magazine Archive

He likes to be truckled to and is always ready to pounce on anybody who trips up over a difficulty in the Law, or is having a bit of fun .

From Time Magazine Archive

In a series of major speeches, he has not truckled to their prejudices, but has candidly explored the duties and limitations of free societies.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their host, an antiquarian architect, had never truckled under to modern civilization and kept his house free of gas and electricity.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

Lesser invests Matt with plenty of naturalistic authenticity, but cannot prevent his character from coming across as a gutless wonder whose unfaltering deference towards his wife seems more truckling than tender.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2014

Instead, it meant to skewer the tone of TV news, by turns omniscient and truckling, in the production of what the show called "genutainment."

From Time ● Nov. 19, 2010

The White House had silently concurred in the maintenance of relations with Vichy, but it was the State Department which had to take the lumps for truckling to minions of Hitler.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the U. S. Senate, Alabama's ever-loud Heflin denounced "this truckling to a vulgar millionaire."

From Time Magazine Archive

Well, without going to extremes, it would be a joy to guide him just a little, to prevent his truckling too glaringly to Castle influence.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield