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gadfly
Stevens has set himself up as a gadfly who persistently challenges his brethren.
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Gadfly Kennedy's march to the brink of insurgency has been building for months.
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They call the former journalist, author and TV commentator, a political gadfly.
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He began as a City Hall gadfly, and now represents a suburban council district.
From the latimes.com
As his career flourished modestly, Puttnam became known as an industry gadfly.
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Still more improbable is the gathering of support for consumer gadfly RALPH NADER.
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Gadfly petrels often feed on the wing, snapping prey without landing on the water.
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Is he more than the right-wing gadfly the political punditocracy labeled him?
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This is a solitary pelagic gadfly petrel of the open seas of the southwest Pacific.
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- Pest: a persistently annoying person
- Any of various large flies that annoy livestock
- Gadfly is a relational database management system written in Python. Gadfly is a collection of Python modules that provides relational database functionality entirely implemented in Python. It supports a subset of the standard RDBMS Structured Query Language (SQL).
- The gadfly, a type of fly plaguing cattle, typically ones belonging to either the family Tabanidae (horse-flies) or the family Oestridae (bot flies), appears in Greek mythology as a tormenter to Io, the heifer maiden. ...
- "Gadfly" is a term for people who upset the status quo by posing upsetting or novel questions, or just being an irritant.
- The Gadfly is a novel by Ethel Lilian Voynich, published in 1897 (United States, June; Great Britain, September of the same year), set in 1840s Italy under the dominance of Austria, a time of tumultuous revolt and uprisings. ...
- The Gadfly is Los Angeles hip-hop group LPG's third album. It was released under UpRok Records, the same record label as Mars ILL and Peace 586. ----
- A nickname for a "professional" securityholder who owns stock in various companies, attends annual meetings and asks senior management hard and often embarrassing questions.
- WCU's Journal of Social Criticism and Philosophy. Satirical pieces philosophically critiquing society-at-large in a humorous manner. Published once a semester.
