“Pray, tell me, Dean. In what manner do these dogs assist the students? Do they teach?” “In a manner of speaking, yes,” the dean replied. “Do they hold doctorate of philosophy degrees, as does my companion, Dogtor Watson?” Furlock asked.

He would lend it to get rid of Podson: the price of three weeks' food money extorted from him by a footpad.

As a final example, the 2009 campaign to reelect Michael Bloomberg as mayor of New York City was accused of conducting push polling against a potential Bloomberg opponent, U.S. representative Anthony Weiner (Hernandez 2009).

[…] ’tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk’d up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.