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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
muckrake .
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Examples
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I have no use whatever for the critic whose heart is set on her destruction or who muckrakes it for a revenue.
What the Church Means to Me A Frank Confession and a Friendly Estimate by an Insider Wilfred T. Grenfell
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"To lock horns with the muckrakes and to defend New York against all who defame and censure it the Association for New York was incorporated yesterday."
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Apart from the inclusion of the apocryphal Shepherd of Hermas and Epistle of Barnabas (don't get me started on what the article muckrakes with the inflammatory comment about the Jews - yes I KNOW there are issues here about antisemitism but a quick dab in an article is surely not the way to deal with them), about which more in a mo, the main textual observations are these:
WordPress.com News markmeynell 2008
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"The men with the muckrakes are often indispensable to the well-being of society; but only if they know when to stop ruck -- raking the muck and to look upward to the celestial crown above them to crown -- to the crown of worthy endeavor.
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