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opportunist

[op-er-too-nist, -tyoo-] / ˌɒp ərˈtu nɪst, -ˈtju- /


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Those types of responses have riled her critics, who have portrayed her as indecisive at best, and an opportunist at worst.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

Regardless of how you showed up, you were a brilliant antagonist for a morally flexible opportunist.

From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026

Watts, 22, said he had parked and left his vehicle for about 20 minutes when an opportunist smashed a window and found the laptop bag under his seat at Howard Place, Cardiff, on Tuesday night.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

Musk's lawyers seized on the entries to portray Brockman as a calculating opportunist.

From Barron's ● May 11, 2026

Now she was the subject of many da-zi-bao calling her an opportunist, a black executioner, a corruptor of the young.

From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang




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