Example Sentences
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The great muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair once said it was pretty much impossible to convince somebody of something if their money depended on them not believing or understanding it.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
The catalyst: a muckraking YouTuber named “Reckless Ben,” who stormed into town on a mission to recover the toy bricks for an ailing retiree’s family.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Videos posted online and coverage on the local muckraking site the Rooster document Pan’s 17-minute address, in which he:
From Slate ● May 8, 2024
Noted 20th century critics dismissed the book, but recent scholars have revisited it as a muckraking romance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2023
He saw himself as a muckraking gadfly and had mortgaged his brownstone five times to keep The Phoenix going.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
