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Recent Examples of shill
The main villain of the piece, Simba’s dreadful uncle Scar, is a superior bad guy, pensive and brooding rather than angry or shill.
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Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 21 Nov. 2024
And if the government appoints a shill to the position, the credibility of the whole system evaporates.
—Omar S. Bashir, Foreign Affairs, 24 Sep. 2012
Carrie will be with us for the whole ride and will quickly prove no mere Establishment shill.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2024
Is Sanders a corporate shill, forcing us all to still work 24 unnecessary hours per week to feed the greed of the C-suite?
—The Editors, National Review, 18 Mar. 2024
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Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 21 Nov. 2024
And if the government appoints a shill to the position, the credibility of the whole system evaporates.
—Omar S. Bashir, Foreign Affairs, 24 Sep. 2012
Carrie will be with us for the whole ride and will quickly prove no mere Establishment shill.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2024
Is Sanders a corporate shill, forcing us all to still work 24 unnecessary hours per week to feed the greed of the C-suite?
—The Editors, National Review, 18 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shill
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Fever’s music partners include standout names such as Primavera Sound, Fabrik, Last Tour, Cercle and TCE Presents, while Dice is trusted by such venues, festivals, and promoters as Club Space, Newport Jazz and Folk Festival, Sonar, London’s Alexandra Palace and Rough Trade globally.—
Thania Garcia,
Variety,
5 June 2025
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Local promoters Flip Phone Events began offering drag brunches in 2015 and have since expanded into 19 other states and Washington, D.C.—
Ross Raihala,
Twin Cities,
3 June 2025
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On the Aussie front, beloved indie rockers Cloud Control re-enter the ARIA Albums Chart at No. 19 with their 2010 debut Bliss Release, following their surprise reunion after a seven-year hiatus.—
Jessica Lynch,
Billboard,
6 June 2025
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Casto has begun stripping varietal names from the front of bottles, starting with cabernet franc.—
Rachel King,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2025
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Both are willing to be mouthpieces and like the status of that more than anything else.—
Destiny Jackson,
Deadline,
27 May 2025
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He was repeatedly praised by mouthpieces for the Putin regime, such as the Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova, and the right-wing philosopher Alexander Dugin.—
Veronica Anghel,
Foreign Affairs,
21 May 2025
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“Shill.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shill. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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