stooge
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One of the smart tweaks Bong has made to Ashton’s book is devolving the character from an everyman into a passive stooge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2025
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
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
The kid was Leon’s bookkeeper and probably his 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
Only difference is instead of the three stooges, it’s the five stooges.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2021
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
And he had stooges or frightened kids like David Caroni who sang out their reports in the classroom as Leon basked in the totals.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
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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