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muckraking/ˈmʌkreɪkɪŋ/
▶noun the action of searching out and publicizing scandal about famous people.
– derivatives
muckrake verb,
muckraker noun.
muckrake verb,
muckraker noun.
– origin coined by President Theodore Roosevelt in a speech (1906) alluding to Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and the man with the muck rake.
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