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  • noun Plural form of critic.

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Examples

  • The list could fuel calls for a crackdown on oil speculators, a label critics apply to those who trade in oil but don't use or produce it.

    As Oil Spiked, Many Traded Ianthe Jeanne Dugan 2011

  • Did waterboarding, sleep deprivation and other "enhanced interrogation techniques," a phrase critics call a euphemism for torture, ultimately work?

    Reuters: Top News 2011

  • Did waterboarding, sleep deprivation and other "enhanced interrogation techniques," a phrase critics call a euphemism for torture, ultimately work?

    Reuters: Top News 2011

  • The campaign in support of the proposition has blanketed the state with advertisements against "puppy mills," the label critics prefer, featuring grainy video images of law enforcement raids on breeding facilities where frail and listless dogs live cramped in wire cages piled with excrement.

    NYT > Home Page By A. G. SULZBERGER 2010

  • No. And about those so-called "death panels," a term critics used to argue against a provision they say will put the federal government in a euthanasia business.

    CNN Transcript Aug 12, 2009 2009

  • No. And about those so-called "death panels," a term critics use to argue against a provision they say will put the federal government in the euthanasia business.

    CNN Transcript Aug 13, 2009 2009

  • This explanation is accompanied by closely associated criteria for identifying good critics: “Strong sense, united to delicate sentiment, improved by practice, perfected by comparison, and cleared of all prejudice, can alone entitle critics to this valuable character” (SOT, 278).

    Hume's Aesthetics Gracyk, Ted 2008

  • And if your only defense against the trust of your culpability is to label your critics from the left as being trolls and right-wingers, you have no future.

    Think Progress » Summit of the Americas: Then and Now 2005

  • A need generally felt by model builders and their critics is the need for refinement, that is, for the introduction of many more variables.

    Jan Tinbergen - Prize Lecture 1992

  • Ben-Atar lamented what he described as critics unfairly speculating about the content of Oren's speech.

    JTA - Recent News abildner@jta.org 2010

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  • JM is of the opinion that critics are sometimes those who pan for gold.

    August 26, 2011