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Recent Examples of wheeler-dealer
Nelson is a Willy Loman, a failing wheeler-dealer and big talker with no game to back him up.
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Sara Holdren, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
Imagine what a shrewd, wheeler-dealer type could do with the Pirates.
—Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
The picture these witnesses painted of Combs gels with previous depictions of the rap mogul as a hot-blooded, win-at-all-costs wheeler-dealer, which until now had lived mostly in the realm of rumor.
—Sheldon Pearce, NPR, 3 July 2025
John Richard Simplot was a real wheeler-dealer, one of the last of the old-school American entrepreneurs.
—Dana Oland, Idaho Statesman, 1 Apr. 2025
Roseman, grounded in salary cap machinations, negotiations and analytics, is a wheeler-dealer deluxe.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Feb. 2025
Michele Jackson More than six decades ago, New Yorker writer John Bainbridge spent nine months in the newly wealthy, fast-growing state of Texas, studying and schmoozing with its wheeler-dealers, oilmen, and bankers.
—The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2024
Delon was perfectly cast as a wheeler-dealer stockbroker who becomes involved with Vitti’s character but is unwilling and unable to satisfy her emotional needs.
—Carmel Dagan, Variety, 18 Aug. 2024
Indeed, her self-branding as a wheeler-dealer is yet another step in her savvy journey up the industry ladder.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wheeler-dealer
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Anyone from a Hollywood Goth to a streetwear enthusiast to your average Hollywood slickster looking for something streamlined and stylish will find something here.—
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The jive talker, the role of slang-slinging slickster, has been picked up by Slick, Junkyard Dog and the Godfather.—
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Josh Safdie and Ronald Bronstein’s latest collaboration is a spiritual sequel to their 2019 masterpiece, once again putting an undeniably charming schemer through a nightmarish gauntlet of trials and tribulations to chase an impossible dream.—
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In various shadows of the things that have been, Chris Hoch plays young Ebenezer’s father as an abusive drunk, a schemer who saddled the family with debt.—
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In the years since 2004’s Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Penn’s carved out a niche embodying big-talking, attention-grabbing rascals who say inappropriate things, then shrug their way through the consequences.—
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In a time when unemployment is on the rise and the rich are running amok and wreaking havoc on the poor — and the social services in place to support them — who doesn’t love the idea of rogue rascals sticking it to a bougie institution by running off with its crown jewels?—
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Also featured: a scene in which Parsons, a gamesman who actually brought his own Connect Four board to Southern California training camp, faces backup quarterback Ben DiNucci in a chess match.—
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Friedlander’s style of photography is usually cool, winking, and gamesman-like, but his pictures of his wife thrum with gentle affection.—
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How does history distinguish knaves from legendary figures?—
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Human beings are motivated by virtue (knights) or rigid self-interest (knaves), or are passive victims of their circumstances (pawns).—
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After China made investments in Panama, El Salvador, and the Dominican Republic, all three countries agreed to cut their diplomatic ties with Taiwan, which Beijing views as a rogue province.—
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This represents a breakdown in checks and balances, and a lack of political courage on the part of Republicans to constrain a rogue president.—
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Eventually, the fox coaxed its tiny kits out of their den and led them on their first foray into the open.—
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The foxes were moved to Audubon Zoo in New Orleans, Peacock said.—
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City slickers will definitely get a bang for their buck with this place, which is a lot more spacious than a shoebox on the Upper East Side.—
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During the Waleses' trip to Canada in October 1991, Diana made time between touring an AIDS hospice and a women's shelter to join William, 9, and Harry, 7, on a visit to Niagara Falls, where the trio donned rain slickers for a wet and wild voyage on the Maid of the Mist.—
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“Wheeler-dealer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wheeler-dealer. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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