stooge
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Its corporate stooge Mr Paradox, played by Succession's Matthew Macfadyen, tries to covertly recruit Deadpool to help safeguard the central "sacred" timeline of reality by sacrificing his world.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2024
So, what’s a stooge like me to do?
From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2024
With Nick Mohammed, I said we would love it if you would kind of be my stooge, and then you’ve been nagging me so much that I get you hoisted up to the flies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2023
Then again, Myn has a reason for stonewalling Hera – he's an Imperial stooge wearing the cloak of a businessman.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2023
“We better get a doctor,” he had yelled at the kid called Obie, Archie’s stooge.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
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Take, for instance, the three stooges of “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
Albeit his stooges would not be the three of yesteryear’s Hollywood, Larry, Moe and Shemp.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 18, 2023
An already tumultuous week, which has seen players resigning from the PGA Tour while being asked if they are "Saudi stooges" in uncomfortable news conferences, took a significant turn at 14:45 BST.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2022
The militias were on the defensive for the first time in years, with some demonstrators deriding them as Iranian stooges.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2020
My mother said we were the three stooges, and Jazz said we were the three blind mice, but whatever.
From "When I Was the Greatest" by Jason Reynolds
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Back in the U.S., he stooged for other entertainers, even held fans for Sally Rand.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Georgia drifted into a period of stooging for most of the top funny men: Hope, Durante, Frank Morgan, Milton Berle, Danny Kaye.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Anything else is just "stooging," which is flyers' slang for pooping around.
From Time Magazine Archive
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