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gadfly

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Noun

1. pest

2. blighter, cuss, pesterer, tormentor, tormenter, persecutor, fly

Usage
Gadfly Bites 3/4/26—TBD - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
The Gladiator & the Gadfly - Commonweal Magazine
What the fadeout effect means for testing, accountability, and school choice - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Mayor Jones cuts off City Hall gadfly over anti-gay remarks - San Antonio Express-News
Arousing, persuading, and reproaching: How Gadfly is promoting philosophical engagement, one conversation at a time - Columbia Daily Spectator
Flip-phone-toting lobbyist is eyewitness to decades of Maryland candidacies - thebanner.com
The Gadfly Manifesto - Psychiatric Times
Opinion: Gadflies, free speech and the future of civic dialogue here in Los Gatos - Los Gatan
Gadfly Bites 2/27/26—The pathway - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
The Education Gadfly Weekly: Education in the age of feeling - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Mike gives easy A’s a big ole F | Episode 1006 of The Education Gadfly Show - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Gadfly Bites 7/21/25—Trimble trouble - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Gadfly Bites 2/6/26—How someone else always gets us into trouble and why someone else must always get us out of it - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Education savings accounts: Boffo or bonkers? | Episode 1002 of The Education Gadfly Show - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Get the (retro) buzz: Twenty years of Ohio Gadfly - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Gadfly Bites 1/28/26—Are you in or are you out? - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
On the negative NAEP news, and the real reason screen time is hurting student learning - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Gadfly Bites 9/24/25—Every excuse - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Gadfly Bites 12/17/25—How clever of them - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Gadfly Bites 10/22/25—The state of things - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
What’s at stake if federal oversight of IDEA weakens? | Episode 994 of The Education Gadfly Show - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Gadfly Are Soundtracking Resistance With a Defiant Spirit - readrange.com
EMS gadfly or journalist? Brattleboro officials debate First Amendment protections - WCAX
Hank Burchard, Post reporter and newsroom gadfly, dies at 85 - The Washington Post
Utah political ‘gadfly’ George Zinn arrested, released after Charlie Kirk shooting - KPCW
Is the “college enrollment crisis” a myth? | Episode 998 of The Education Gadfly Show - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
No one actually likes high expectations - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
A better way to measure school quality - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Grinstead Gadfly shares happening on the Plaza this weekend - Sonoma Index-Tribune
The Education Gadfly Weekly: Federal school choice skeptics are tilting at windmills - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Xi Jinping says Irish novel The Gadfly sustained him during traumatic teenage years - The Irish Times
Remembering David C. Berliner: Scholar, gadfly, mentor and defender of public education - ASU News
The Education Gadfly Weekly: Moving K–12 programs to the Department of Labor is neither smart nor conservative - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Is tutoring the next big thing? | Episode 1001 of The Education Gadfly Show - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Community Matters: Gadfly’s recall crusade threatens city government - Petaluma Argus-Courier
Shostakovich The Gadfly. Five Days - Five Nights - Gramophone
Rand rides again as GOP gadfly - Punchbowl News
Education policy and climate change | Episode 981 of The Education Gadfly Show - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
How AI is reshaping what kids need to learn | Episode 995 of The Education Gadfly Show - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
George Zinn, arrested on suspicion of obstruction after Charlie Kirk shooting, is widely known Utah political ‘gadfly’ - The Salt Lake Tribune
Our Opinion: First Amendment protects gadfly's offensive banner - springhopeenterprise.com
George Zinn, Utah man detained in viral footage after Charlie Kirk assassination, is well-known political ‘gadfly’ - New York Post
'Pain in the rear' NJ gadfly will oversee farm program he criticized - Morris County NJ News | Daily Record
Hong Kong’s top corporate gadfly leaves huge void | Reuters - Breakingviews
Old man who falsely claimed he shot Charlie Kirk told cops he did it to 'draw attention from real shooter': report - New York Post
Answering Randi Weingarten - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Tempe drops case against city gadfly - ahwatukee.com
"Socrates: The Gadfly of Athens - vocal.media
#979: Is too much democracy hamstringing our schools? with Vlad Kogan - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Festivals & Events: PISS, Wait//Less, Gadfly, more to play Girls To The Front Fest Vancouver - Punknews
How an obscure Irish novel got China’s leader through his teens - The Times
Morris County Judge Rejects Dover Gadfly’s Request for a Reversal of Prior Restraints - Morris Focus
Vancouver Psychfest Gets Pharm, La Chinga, Gadfly for 2025 Edition - Exclaim!
Sharon Anderson, a colorful thorn in the political eye, dies at 86 - Pioneer Press
The Irish Times view on The Gadfly: Ireland’s little-known best-seller - The Irish Times
#961: How “No Excuses” charter schools went off the rails, with Steven Wilson - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Extinct gadfly petrel described from the Azores - BirdGuides
Gadfly Node NFT Floor Price Chart - CoinGecko
Martin and Xi say they read it as teens - but what is The Gadfly and who is its Cork-born author? - The Journal
Gadflies, Unite! These People for Governor, or Congress, or Whatever - Colorado Pols
Ohio Gadfly—A sensible modification to Ohio’s problematic “20 mill tax floor” - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Judge Dismisses Gonzalez Counterclaim, Delivering Another Blow to Dover Gadfly’s Legal Effort - Morris Focus
Chinese President Xi Jinping's 'interesting' Ireland love including The Gadfly and Ulysses gift - Irish Star
Inside the mind of Downey’s most notorious Gadfly - The Downey Patriot
Update: Lotus swap gadfly for alicerawr - Dust2.us
Once targeted by activist investors, Matt Proud is now a formidable shareholder gadfly himself - The Globe and Mail
Conservatives, don’t let fighting DEI become a witch hunt - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
#963: All about the Educational Choice for Children Act, with Jim Blew - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
A Love Letter to an Old-Guard Council Gadfly - The Silicon Valley Voice
Vancouver's Music Waste Details 2025 Lineup with Non La, Gadfly - Exclaim!
The Gadfly - City Journal
Documentary Review: New York teens run a campaign for president — “American Gadfly” - rogersmovienation.com
The therapist and the gadfly - Princeton University Press
The Gadfly of American Plutocracy - Boston Review
Gadfly Bites 9/25/23—Antepenultimate - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
The latest buzz: The Gadfly returns after 26-year dormancy - The Vermont Cynic
The Gadfly - Commonweal Magazine
Morris County Superior Court Judge Enters Order Restraining Local Gadfly and Former Police Officer Rico Gonzalez from Disparaging Town Officials - Morris Focus
Global spatial ecology of three closely-related gadfly petrels - Nature
DESPERATION: Never-Trump Gadfly George Conway Launches Pathetic Olympic-Style Ad Blitz - bearingdrift.com
Swatting the Impish Gadfly – Jesse Russell - Law & Liberty
Beyond test scores: Debating how to measure school quality | Episode 988 of The Education Gadfly Show - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Generation Change Philly: Gadfly for Good - The Philadelphia Citizen
Gadfly Bites 7/1/19 – With relish - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Word of the Day: gadfly (Published 2022) - The New York Times
Book Review: Christopher Hitchens — Final Stings From the Gadfly - The Arts Fuse
‘American Gadfly’ Review: A Candid Candidacy (Published 2022) - The New York Times
Gadfly Bar: The Tucked-Away Lounge Drawing A Crowd In New York City - Forbes
The Education Gadfly Weekly: Doing educational equity right: Grading - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Statistical Plotting with Julia: Gadfly.jl - Towards Data Science
Fiction Review: “The Year of the Gadfly” by Jennifer Miller - Newcity Lit
The ‘Rebel’ and Human Rights Gadfly Seeking to Criminalize Ecocide - Undark Magazine
Gadfly Bites 7/12/24—Sir! No enrollment from any outside district, sir! - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Gadfly Macklin fearlessly challenged the status quo - Canberra CityNews
Gadfly Bites 1/5/24—The future - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
A conservative legal gadfly faces the music - Politico
Obituary: Meghnad Desai was true gadfly in the best sense of the word - Business Standard
James Beck, Gadfly (1930-2007) - The Brooklyn Rail
Gadfly Bites 3/18/24—Passing with 110% of the vote - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Can Jonathan Haidt Calm the Culture Wars? - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Foreign Language Equivalents
Foreign Language Equivalents of 'gadfly'
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Misspellings - Typos
gadfky,   adfly,   gadly,   gaddfly,   gdfly,   gadfy,   gasfly,   gafdly,   gadflyy,   gadfl,   hadfly,   gadflu,   gadflt,   gadgly,   gafly,   gaffly,   gdafly,   gaddly,   fadfly,   gadflly,   gsdfly,   ggadfly,   gadfyl,   gadffly,   gaadfly,   gadlfy,   gadf;y,   agdfly
Words Starting with Letter - 'A'
a a battery a billion
a bit a bit much a capella singing
a cappella singing a couple of a few
a fortiori a good deal a great deal
a horizon a hundred a hundred and one
a hundred thousand a hundred times a kempis
a la carte a la mode a level
a little a lot a million
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