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stooge

[stooj] / studʒ /


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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

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

Back in the U.S., he stooged for other entertainers, even held fans for Sally Rand.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Anything else is just "stooging," which is flyers' slang for pooping around.

From Time Magazine Archive




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