Flack

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"Flack" in a Sentence (7 examples)

Stephanie Flack says the conservation plan she is developing with the National Park Service is an attempt to focus attention on the management of this urban oasis and to protect its bio-diversity from both recreational overuse and pollution from upstream development.

Stephanie Flack is working with the National Park Service, the principal landowner, on a conservation plan to protect the Gorge from the more than four million people who live nearby. She says invasive species, a growing deer population, and adjacent land use are the major problems.

Edward Bernay, who was a consultant to the US Delegation to the Versailles Peace Conference which terminated the first World War (and who finally wound up as a flack for the United Fruit Company in Latin America), believed that propaganda and its covert marketing could effectively alter the will of the American public.

Thought you were flack," she said. "I'm not flack." "All right, P.R., a reporter, a novelist."

In July, Nick Clegg, a former Deputy Prime Minister of the U.K. who is now a top flack at Facebook, published a piece on AdAge.com and on the company’s official blog titled “Facebook Does Not Benefit from Hate,” in which he wrote, “There is no incentive for us to do anything but remove it.”

And he [Ben Shapiro] called Stephen K. Bannon, the onetime chief strategist for Mr. Trump, a former “P.R. flack for Jeffrey Epstein.”

[..] he told funny stories about his early days in the theater district, flacking shows up and down the street, but Klara wasn’t listening.

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