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gadflies

  • plural
    of gadfly.
    gadfly
    noun
    any of various flies, as a stable fly or warble fly, that bite or annoy domestic animals.

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So it’s time for prognosticators, observers, gadflies and political junkies to share their predictions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

And why is the work of maintaining them left to civic gadflies, even after two consecutive New York mayors have pledged to tackle the problem?

From Slate ● Apr. 25, 2023

Working the polls has long been something that retirees did, along with nice church ladies, neighborhood busybodies, local political gadflies and civics geeks.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 8, 2022

Those are just a few of the celebrity gadflies, sycophants, grifters and weirdos he is backing.

From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2022

The weather had for a considerable time been hot and dry, and mosquitoes and gadflies were very troublesome.

From Over the Rocky Mountains Wandering Will in the Land of the Redskin by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne