Definition of "critics" []

• Plural form of critic. (noun)

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• "The list could fuel calls for a crackdown on oil speculators, a label critics apply to those who trade in oil but don't use or produce it."
• "Did waterboarding, sleep deprivation and other "enhanced interrogation techniques," a phrase critics call a euphemism for torture, ultimately work?"
• "The campaign in support of the proposition has blanketed the state with advertisements against "puppy mills," the label critics prefer, featuring grainy video images of law enforcement raids on breeding facilities where frail and listless dogs live cramped in wire cages piled with excrement."