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  • noun Plural form of opportunist.

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Examples

  • As in the United States, the medical establishment in Guadalajara and its opportunists from the metropolitan zone who come to Lake Chapala to prey on the frail Lakeside old folks are out to make a peso but that´s human nature is it not?

    Logic 101 2009

  • As in the United States, the medical establishment in Guadalajara and its opportunists from the metropolitan zone who come to Lake Chapala to prey on the frail Lakeside old folks are out to make a peso but that´s human nature is it not?

    Logic 101 2009

  • As in the United States, the medical establishment in Guadalajara and its opportunists from the metropolitan zone who come to Lake Chapala to prey on the frail Lakeside old folks are out to make a peso but that´s human nature is it not?

    Logic 101 2009

  • As in the United States, the medical establishment in Guadalajara and its opportunists from the metropolitan zone who come to Lake Chapala to prey on the frail Lakeside old folks are out to make a peso but that´s human nature is it not?

    Logic 101 2009

  • As in the United States, the medical establishment in Guadalajara and its opportunists from the metropolitan zone who come to Lake Chapala to prey on the frail Lakeside old folks are out to make a peso but that´s human nature is it not?

    Logic 101 2009

  • At that time those states still lived under the threat of military intervention by the Union Army, and with Confederate combatants not yet allowed to vote, their politics were dominated by anti-racist Republicans and by the hated “carpetbagger” opportunists from the North.

    What Obama’s Grandma Thought Of His “Throw Grandma Under The Bus” Speech 2008

  • At that time those states still lived under the threat of military intervention by the Union Army, and with Confederate combatants not yet allowed to vote, their politics were dominated by anti-racist Republicans and by the hated “carpetbagger” opportunists from the North.

    VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » More On Obama’s Ancestry–His American Ancestors Included An Unreconstructed Confederate 2008

  • At that time those states still lived under the threat of military intervention by the Union Army, and with Confederate combatants not yet allowed to vote, their politics were dominated by anti-racist Republicans and by the hated “carpetbagger” opportunists from the North.

    More On Obama’s Ancestry–His American Ancestors Included An Unreconstructed Confederate 2008

  • Second, he blames a group he calls the opportunists, which he describes as containing many of the people working in the Coalition Provisional Authority who were there not to see Iraq restored, but simply "to get a good line on their resumes and to get a job in the new administration."

    Archive 2006-12-01 Ellen Beth Gill 2006

  • Second, he blames a group he calls the opportunists, which he describes as containing many of the people working in the Coalition Provisional Authority who were there not to see Iraq restored, but simply "to get a good line on their resumes and to get a job in the new administration."

    A story of an Iraqi and an article by an Iraqi Ellen Beth Gill 2006

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