agentry
Americannoun
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Origin of agentry
Example Sentences
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Brinkley objected to the way "the whole apparatus of press agentry and promotion is put to work ... promoting stars along with promoting news, to the point where it is not clear which is which."
From Time Magazine Archive
It is almost as if this supermole wanted to demystify his own legend, making double agentry seem as banal as bartending.
From Time Magazine Archive
Press agentry in the democracies has perhaps passed its peak.
From Time Magazine Archive
The long spell between those streaks is a measure of how evenly matched the N.F.L. has become in the modern era of complex draft picks, free agentry and expansion.
From Time Magazine Archive
The flower of the Lowshire land agentry was absent.
From Notwithstanding by Cholmondeley, Mary
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