Sentence examples for * gotcha in from inspiring English sources

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To which Vader responds with arguably the most powerful gotcha in the history of film: "I am your father".

This coup, the only real "Gotcha!" in Ms. Kelley's "Oprah," is the kind of reportorial discovery on which Ms. Kelley has built her giant-killer reputation.

Clement said the players could not "flip a light switch" to play "gotcha" in shuttling between being protected by labor or antitrust law, depending on whether the union exists.

DECEMBER 2000 will go down as the month Domenico De Sole, chief executive officer of Gucci, and Bernard Arnault, chairman of LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, played "Gotcha!" in the long-running luxury war.

The year 2011 will most likely turn out to be a year of "gotcha," in which all three look to deflect pressure from themselves and bring it to bear on one another rather than make the decisions necessary to reach an agreement.

The same energy that went into keeping her plight alive on the internet has now mutated into a perverse game of gotcha in which anonymous posters, echoing the early skepticism of law enforcement, have set up fake sites to pour scorn on Papini's experience and on those who sought to help her.

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He eschewed the gotcha-in-a-flip-flop questions beloved of professional journalists in favour of substantive questions about the candidates' characters and beliefs.

Senators John McCain of Arizona, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Ted Cruz of Texas, all Republicans, were particularly snide and dismissive of Mr. Hagel and more interested in bullying him and playing a game of gotcha than in eliciting thoughtful policy responses.

In this debate it was the use of the Sun's offensive headline "Gotcha", though in this context, you might have expected him to have avoided anything that might imply an overly familiar relationship with any News International product.

I'm a businessman with a brand to sell". 7) But he hates Trivial Pursuit-style "gotcha questions". In early September, Trump struggled in answering questions from conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, who drilled the presidential candidate on the names of leaders of terror groups.

The errors, absurd misstatements and unrelenting extremism were not the result of some "gotcha" moment in which a candidate was cornered in an interview or debate by a tricky (or maybe not so tricky) question.

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