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Recent Examples of sycophancy
Neither leaders of pharma nor finance had to engage in golf outings, tithing schemes, or sycophancy to gain Trump’s attention.
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Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian, TIME, 17 Jan. 2025
Then come the inevitable policy mistakes, as ideology and sycophancy overwhelm sound advice.
—Daron Acemoglu, Foreign Affairs, 23 Mar. 2020
TikTok's masterclass in sycophancy is an excellent example of what dealmaking in the Trump era looks like in practice.
—Felix Salmon, Axios, 21 Jan. 2025
Their approach vacillates between resentful disdain or pandering sycophancy, both of which continually backfire on them.
—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian, TIME, 17 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sycophancy
Noun
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In the comment section, many celebrities shared their love and adoration for baby Jack, including rapper Sexxy Red, actress Justine Skye and Lori Harvey.—
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America’s irreplaceable contribution to winning that world war and preventing another deserves to be the object of adoration.—
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Eastern Wyandotte County residents saw their streets, basements, businesses and at least one place of worship flood as storms raged across the Kansas City metro and elsewhere on Monday evening.—
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The council also cited the Idaho Code, which does not allow a company to own a liquor license within 300 feet of any public school, church or place of worship.—
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His assessment is based not on the slack-jawed idolatry of elite-media toadies, but on sources nobody else thought to ring up and poke.—
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Unlike most contemporary acts subject to mass idolatry, Wolf Alice’s online presence (which, historically, has been minimal) has never been part of the appeal.—
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“Sycophancy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sycophancy. Accessed 29 May. 2025.
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