muckrake

Example Sentences

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She wasn’t there to muckrake but to grasp what happens when the object of laboratory study is not a molecule or a rat but a human being.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 29, 2018

And it’s not just foreign operatives that we must beware of - deep-pocketed special interests here can muckrake online with little or no accountability, too.

From Washington Times • May 9, 2018

At the 1906 Gridiron Club dinner in Washington, President Theodore Roosevelt first likened crusading journalists to a man with "the muckrake in his hand."

From US News • Mar. 17, 2015

In 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt first likened crusading journalists to a man with “the muckrake in his hand” in a speech to the Gridiron Club in Washington.

From Washington Post • Mar. 17, 2011

The journalist might well exchange the muckrake for the pick and dig it out.

From How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers by Bleyer, Willard Grosvenor