How to Use spin doctor in a Sentence

spin doctor

noun
  • The spin doctors from both sides were already declaring victory for their candidates as soon as the debate ended.
  • That was the rap that all of the spin doctors had been pushing.
    — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 29 Jan. 2016
  • Roosevelt’s spin doctors had always been perplexed that some wartime sound bites caught on while others did not.
    — Abigail Tucker, Smithsonian, 23 Feb. 2018
  • No team of spin doctors will be able to help Eberflus talk his way through Thursday’s ending.
    — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Trump undermined the efforts of his spin doctors by providing his own take just a bit later.
    — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 26 Apr. 2020
  • The public relations spin doctors are working overtime at Apple this week.
    — Josh Hoxie, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2018
  • That’s still a long way off, any service members stranded in danger before then can still count on an improved chance of rescue thanks to this new spin doctor.
    — Eric Adams, WIRED, 19 July 2019
  • In fact, Anders calls it diabolical, which flips a switch in Hollis, who leaps to the wrong conclusion about his spin doctor.
    — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2025
  • For the Russian president, silencing him once and for all makes perfect sense, even if the Kremlin’s spin doctors try to deny it.
    — Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2024
  • As Blair’s spin doctor Alastair Campbell once said, British politicians don’t do religion.
    — David Runciman, Foreign Affairs, 22 July 2013
  • The story revolves around a young spin doctor and a journalist who team up to reveal a conspiracy to abolish democracy in Sweden.
    — Annika Pham, Variety, 16 Oct. 2024
  • But Otto, the ultimate spin doctor, sees an opportunity to change the narrative.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 23 June 2024
  • Don’t let the spin doctors convince you this fight is about anything other than one big business — unions — wanting to get an advantage over their corporate adversaries and grow their footprint.
    — The Denver Post Editorial Board, The Denver Post, 21 Dec. 2024
  • Charles tried to push back, hiring his own spin doctor, Mark Bolland, apparently in an attempt to rejuvenate her public image.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Vadim Baranov, fictional Putin adviser, rose to great heights as the Kremlin’s spin doctor before resigning.
    — New York Times, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Putin, perhaps with an eye to posterity, has been trying to rehabilitate the reputation of the deceased tyrant and mass murderer — a task that will challenge the skills of his spin doctors.
    — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Panjandrums such as Tony Blair’s loathed former spin doctor, Alastair Campbell, pretended that what was needed was a second vote.
    — Douglas Murray, National Review, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Everyone in the building needs to be evaluated skeptically, from trainers and equipment managers to security guards and spin doctors in the public relations department.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2025
  • In Spears’s time, managers operated variously as cult leaders or spin doctors, issuing editorials about their clients as opposed to repairing their bicycles.
    — Andrew O’Hagan, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
  • While the Soviet Union was — at least in theory — a dictatorship of the proletariat, Putin’s Russia is truly a spin doctor dictatorship.
    — Leonid Ragozin, Time, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Baranov is modeled primarily on Surkov, the all-powerful deputy chief of Kremlin staff, but the character also stands in for the hundreds of TV producers, spin doctors, and politicians who worked for him.
    — Andrew Ryvkin, Air Mail, 9 May 2026
  • Paul Dano is spin doctor and adviser Vadim Baranov, a fictitious character loosely inspired by real-life Russian politician Vladislav Surkov.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 15 May 2026
  • Proekt, an investigative website founded by several of Russia’s leading independent journalists, bases its story on anonymous interviews with sources close to the government, to Rosatom, and to the spin doctors themselves.
    — Max De Haldevang, Quartz, 16 Nov. 2019
  • The Wizard of the Kremlin, revolving around a scheming Russian spin doctor who smooths Vladimir Putin’s ascent to power in the 1990s, world premieres in Venice this weekend.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Tom Baldwin is a former journalist who worked for five years as a Labour spin doctor; he was originally recruited to ghostwrite Starmer's own memoir, but Starmer backed out of the project last year, agreeing instead to cooperate on this biography.
    — The Week Staff, theweek, 6 June 2024
  • There are many intriguing dinners over which the pair allegedly cracked their plan with the help of a solicitor, a professional spin doctor, and eventually a journalist, Penny Junor, who was commissioned to portray Camilla well at Diana’s expense.
    — Kenzie Bryant, Vanities, 21 Mar. 2018
  • The Giants’ core four relievers, vital to winning three World Series championships from 2010-14, were mostly spin doctors who succeeded by winning platoon matchups and preventing barreled contact.
    — Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The whole debacle has placed a huge spotlight on the BBC Board and one of its members, Robbie Gibb, a former Conservative Party spin doctor who has been accused in some quarters of leading a coup against Davie and Turness.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Oliver Assayas’ topical drama The Wizard of the Kremlin, revolving around a scheming Russian spin doctor who smooths Vladimir Putin’s ascent to power in the 1990s, world premieres in Venice this evening.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The feature is adapted by Assayas and award-winning writer Emmanuel Carrère from Giuliano da Empoli’s eponymous 2022 novel inspired by the career of Putin’s real long-term adviser and spin doctor Vladislav Surkov.
    — Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 31 Aug. 2025

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