as in to defraud
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Agents with Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin's office last week arrested two Helena-West Helena residents, one of them an employee with the state Department of Corrections, accused of working together to defraud the state's Medicaid program, a Tuesday news release from Griffin's office states.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
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One recent scam involved an executive of an international firm being defrauded out of millions of dollars, by a scammer using deepfake technology.—
Matt Emma,
USA Today,
3 Nov. 2025
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Greenblatt’s myth of a Romantic Marlowe almost singlehandedly pushing England into the Renaissance betrays the principles of New Historicism by shortchanging the roles of so many other key players.—
Isaac Butler,
The Atlantic,
3 Nov. 2025
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At the postgame news conference, Dillingham did not shortchange Tyson’s absence.—
Doug Haller,
New York Times,
26 Oct. 2025
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“Clean (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clean%20%28out%29. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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