Fisk

[fisk]

noun

1. James, 1834–72, U.S. financier and stock speculator.

fisk

/ fɪsk /

verb

1. slang,  to refute or criticize (a journalistic article or blog) point by point

Word History and Origins

Origin of Fisk¹

C21: after the use of this technique by Robert Fisk (born 1946), British journalist, to criticize articles

Example Sentences

He toured Horn, a manufacturing plant that produces drill-bit components, met with students and teachers at Fisk University, and led roundtables with executives and small-business owners on how higher costs and policy uncertainty are shaping their decisions.

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Catherine Fisk, Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Professor of Law at UC Berkeley Law counters, however, that in the first few decades of the NLRB’s functioning, state labor agencies had much more leeway to enforce federal labor rights.

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Fisk serves as the team’s reserve long snapper.

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“Marty realized that he needed to have somebody come in as a moderator to explain stuff,” “Killers” production designer Jack Fisk told Vulture in 2024, “but he said he didn’t understand exactly how to direct that person. How could he impart so much of the four years or five years of research he’d done into an actor? He decided to try it once himself.”

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Liverpool Women players Grace Fisk and Gemma Bonner laid a floral tribute, external for Jota and Andre Silva on behalf of their team outside Anfield on Tuesday.

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