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
Of Walt Whitman it is: "The dirty, clumsy paws of a harper whose plectrum is a muckrake."
From Shelburne Essays, Third Series by More, Paul Elmer
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
