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Noun(1) a slick spokesperson who can turn any criticism to the advantage of their employer(2) intense adverse criticism(3) artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes

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(1) I can say from experience that Michael knows his onions like no other flack I've ever met.(2) They hire cool alpha boys to flack products to their pals.(3) He is the consummate natural actor who endows every role with effortless conviction; he could flack for cell phones, wine, whatever, and have you laughing or crying.(4) Now, comes word of yet another right-leaning columnist getting paid to flack for a Republican administration's policies.(5) The current state of publishing does make that task more difficult - the din of publishers competing to flack their latest u2018hotu2019 titles can become deafening at times.(6) In 1979, when the Three Mile Island nuclear power disaster occurred in Pennsylvania, President Carter went out of his way to flack for the atomic-energy industry.(7) a public relations flack(8) the local news media shamelessly flack for the organizing committee(9) In Canada, the herb has become a mainstream recreational indulgence for everyone from bored petroleum engineers to stressed-out public relations flacks .(10) This is not a battle the university can win - but it may take their dinosaur-like lawyers and PR flacks a while to get that into their tiny brains.(11) The bankers put up $150,00, hired professional flacks and launched a television assault.(12) But movies written and designed to suit their own advertising flackery remained the industry's idea of u2018leading edgeu2019 work.(13) Replicated at the grass roots, some kind of PR alchemy transforms longtime opportunists into profiles in courage and timeworn corporate flacks into champions of the common people.(14) Still, the empire is paying those flacks good money to write crummy press release headlines, and they're just cutting and pasting.(15) According to sources, lots of Hollywood types were backstage, including agents, PR flacks , managers and special guests.(16) But with our eyes on the prize, we should not stumble into the classic trap of candidate flackery while applying political cosmetics.