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What is the noun for muckraker?

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muckraker
  1. (US) One who investigates and exposes issues of corruption that often violate widely held values; e.g. one who exposes political corruption or the poor conditions in prisons.
  2. (Britain) A sensationalist, scandal-mongering journalist, one who is not driven by any social principles.
  3. (US, historical) One of a group of American investigative reporters, novelists and critics of the Progressive Era (the 1890s to the 1920s)
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  5. Examples:
    1. “What a drop for Joe, from what he had been, to this wretched violent little sheet, this muckraker of the ocean world.”
      “The White House has painted him as a partisan muckraker, and most Americans have accepted this.”
      “Honestly, most of the posts and tweets that matter trace their way back to an ink-stained finger on some muckraker somewhere.”
muckrake
  1. A rake for scraping up dung.
muckrakers
  1. plural of muckraker
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  3. Examples:
    1. “It stretches the powers of even the most experienced muckrakers and soapbox haranguers to find the least routine and boring bits of nonsense to present to us as the news.”
      “There's no political favoritism here, so scat, you malicious muckrakers.”
      “What becomes of New York's most formidable muckraking paper when two of its greatest muckrakers are gone?”
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