opportunist
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Regardless of how you showed up, you were a brilliant antagonist for a morally flexible opportunist.
From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026
His successors, Ms. Jones shows, refashioned Disraeli the opportunist as a prophetic figure who adapted successfully to the new challenges of modernity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Musk's lawyers seized on the entries to portray Brockman as a calculating opportunist.
From Barron's ● May 11, 2026
These missives exploded the myths around a man who has for decades been derided as a cynical and unscrupulous opportunist that cheapened Presley’s legacy while enriching himself at his client’s expense.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2025
Miraculously, Oskar Schindler, this complex man of many contradictions—Nazi opportunist, schemer, courageous maverick, rescuer, hero—had saved nearly 1,200 Jews from almost certain death.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
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