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- noun Plural form of
flack . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
flack .
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Examples
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But driving a stake through the heart of gigantic corporate stakeholders with armies of lobbyists and media flacks is a wee bit harder than giving a good speech.
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Dan Gillmor's guide for PR flacks is both humorous and useful.
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The patterns are all exactly the same, the flacks are the same, and the message is the same.
Across the Bay 2008
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Are you implying that Edwards and Obama don't use these kind of flacks (I wonder where that word came from?)?
Hillary Spokesperson: "She Will Of Course Support Dem Nominee" 2009
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If there was a dearth of leads, the "flacks" were always happy to step in.
The Gossip Behind the Gossip DiGiacomo, Frank 2004
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Facebook: Welcome PR "flacks" of the world - On Tuesday afternoon, representatives of the tech industry's biggest corporations convened at Facebook's Palo Alto, California headquarters.
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Facebook: Welcome PR "flacks" of the world - On Tuesday afternoon, representatives of the tech industry's biggest corporations convened at Facebook's Palo Alto, California headquarters.
Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now ,Om Malik 2010
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Facebook: Welcome PR "flacks" of the world - On Tuesday afternoon, representatives of the tech industry's biggest corporations convened at Facebook's Palo Alto, California headquarters.
Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now ,Soulskill 2010
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When I review the unavailable data sets and the misrepresentation of results from years of “gun studies” — like the infamous Kellerman studies that are still quoted as authority — or the hachet job attacks of flacks funded by the anti-gun Joyce Foundation — I shake my head in amazement.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A New Book Coming Soon from Michael Bellesiles 2010
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And come now, is this any reason to let the Board take hundreds of thousands of dollars out of the education budget to keep their lawyers, lobbyists and PR flacks happily sucking on the public teat?
Joel Epstein: Rejecting Century City Subway Station Adjacent Joel Epstein 2011
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