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Recent Examples of enforcer
Slant follows an Asian teenager (Lee) who discovers his father was a legendary Triad enforcer.
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Matt Grobar, Deadline, 15 May 2025
Eager to join the Trump administration’s push to deport unauthorized migrants, Florida is now raising what some call an army of immigration enforcers by enlisting beat cops and even game wardens to arrest the unauthorized residents.
—Patrik Jonsson, Christian Science Monitor, 13 May 2025
Unwilling to take orders or play by the rules of polite society, the two partner up as a bookmaker and his enforcer and run an illicit gambling operation that proves highly profitable — but dangerous.
—Alex Ritman, Variety, 8 May 2025
But in a partial win for Google, antitrust enforcers failed to prove that the company held a monopoly in advertiser ad networks, the judge found.
—Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2025
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Matt Grobar, Deadline, 15 May 2025
Eager to join the Trump administration’s push to deport unauthorized migrants, Florida is now raising what some call an army of immigration enforcers by enlisting beat cops and even game wardens to arrest the unauthorized residents.
—Patrik Jonsson, Christian Science Monitor, 13 May 2025
Unwilling to take orders or play by the rules of polite society, the two partner up as a bookmaker and his enforcer and run an illicit gambling operation that proves highly profitable — but dangerous.
—Alex Ritman, Variety, 8 May 2025
But in a partial win for Google, antitrust enforcers failed to prove that the company held a monopoly in advertiser ad networks, the judge found.
—Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for enforcer
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Either way, Columbia could more easily identify the protesters, much to the advantage of disciplinarians looking to move fast.—
Cayla Bamberger,
New York Daily News,
9 May 2025
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Both were industrious strivers at work and strict disciplinarians at home.—
Danielle Amir Jackson,
The Atlantic,
27 Feb. 2025
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Summit, June 10 Image So Far Gone by Jess Walter Rhys Kinnick, a journalist and a recluse, is living off the grid in the woods near Spokane, Wash., when his grandchildren are kidnapped by thugs.—
Laura Thompson,
New York Times,
22 May 2025
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Everything changes, however, when two thugs come to visit and promptly beat the ever-loving heck out of Hank at the front door.—
Emlyn Travis Published,
EW.com,
21 May 2025
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Boselli and his teammates, coached by prickly taskmaster Tom Coughlin, saw it differently.—
Michael Silver,
New York Times,
29 Apr. 2025
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May comes to a close with taskmaster Saturn entering your sign, for the first time since 1999.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
9 May 2025
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Polish media have also reported on his connections to gangsters and the world of prostitution.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
30 May 2025
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Historically speaking, a half-Mexican woman isn’t usually the first in line to write a story about a violently ambitious gangster, which is what excited me most about it.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
28 May 2025
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In theory, Lee and Trump are well suited as a pair to wrangle the North Korean dictator.—
John Delury,
Foreign Affairs,
3 June 2025
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Individual rights shield us from the initiation of physical force – whether by tax collectors, or dictators threatening us with missiles.—
Ben Bayer,
Oc Register,
19 May 2025
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Teresa’s husband, Sergio, was murdered by the mobster Enrico Vigilante—someone authorities stopped trying to find due to internal politics.—
Isabella Wandermurem,
Time,
3 June 2025
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In high school, his best friend was Al Capone Jr., the Chicago mobster’s son.—
Julia M. Klein,
Los Angeles Times,
29 May 2025
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The Russian tyrant has now cost his country hundreds of thousands of lives and huge portions of its military capability.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
3 June 2025
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Never mind that the Dodgers have been a rip-roaring success on the Golden Coast and that O’Malley was forced into a corner by a New York City tyrant named Robert Moses.—
Steve Silverman,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
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In a police photograph, Lansky stood next to racketeer Charles (Lucky) Luciano.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
3 Apr. 2025
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In the other corner: Vito Genovese, Costello’s childhood friend and fellow racketeer, who had to leave town long ago because of a thing, and has now come home to resume his place in the Mafia hierarchy.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
20 Mar. 2025
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“Enforcer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enforcer. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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