Definitions
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- verb Present participle of
muckrake .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the exposure of scandal (especially about public figures)
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Examples
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Sara Payne even wrote an article for the News of the World's final edition, calling the muckraking tabloid "a force for good."
Charity: Slain girl's mom targeted by tabloid detective 2011
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Baker was a writer renowned for his groundbreaking magazine pieces, which, with the work of his former colleagues Ida Tarbell and Lincoln Steffens, had defined the journalistic skill known as muckraking.
Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007
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Baker was a writer renowned for his groundbreaking magazine pieces, which, with the work of his former colleagues Ida Tarbell and Lincoln Steffens, had defined the journalistic skill known as muckraking.
Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007
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Baker was a writer renowned for his groundbreaking magazine pieces, which, with the work of his former colleagues Ida Tarbell and Lincoln Steffens, had defined the journalistic skill known as muckraking.
Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007
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They label their muckraking as vital to national security, stifling accountability by hiding everything behind a wall of manufactured secrecy.
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Sara Payne even wrote an article for the News of the World's final edition, calling the muckraking tabloid "a force for good."
chron.com Chronicle 2011
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Sara Payne even wrote an article for the News of the World's final edition, calling the muckraking tabloid "a force for good."
unknown title 2011
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Sara Payne even wrote an article for the News of the World's final edition, calling the muckraking tabloid "a force for good."
USATODAY.com News 2011
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Sara Payne even wrote an article for the News of the World's final edition, calling the muckraking tabloid "a force for good."
chron.com Chronicle 2011
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Sara Payne even wrote an article for the News of the World's final edition when it was shut down this month, calling the muckraking tabloid "a force for good."
unknown title 2011
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