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Recent Examples of extorted
Gonzales has denied the affair in the past, and has claimed he is being extorted.
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Fin Daniel Gómez, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2026
Nicole Curtis, the former HGTV star whose Rehab Addict show was canceled after a video surfaced of her using a racial slur, is now claiming she was being extorted.
—Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 18 Feb. 2026
Dearing’s refusal to be extorted out of his home was nearly met with destructive violence.
—Chase Hunter, Mercury News, 17 Feb. 2026
However, the company declined to answer follow-up questions about when the breach occurred, whether customer data was involved or if it is actively being extorted.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 27 Jan. 2026
In his defense, Barnett took the stand to say there was no murder plot and that Thomas extorted him for the money using physical violence – knocking out his teeth, injured his left shoulder, and smacking his private parts.
—Sydney Pereira, Miami Herald, 27 Jan. 2026
The organization claims truckers are commonly extorted by police at the stops.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 26 Nov. 2025
By the following year, the FBI had recovered millions of dollars extorted from Colonial Pipeline by Darkside.
—Charlotte Reck, CNN Money, 9 Nov. 2025
This man just could not stop getting extorted, which is not ideal for anyone but is especially unpleasant for the head of MI5.
—Brian Grubb, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2025
Fin Daniel Gómez, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2026
Nicole Curtis, the former HGTV star whose Rehab Addict show was canceled after a video surfaced of her using a racial slur, is now claiming she was being extorted.
—Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 18 Feb. 2026
Dearing’s refusal to be extorted out of his home was nearly met with destructive violence.
—Chase Hunter, Mercury News, 17 Feb. 2026
However, the company declined to answer follow-up questions about when the breach occurred, whether customer data was involved or if it is actively being extorted.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 27 Jan. 2026
In his defense, Barnett took the stand to say there was no murder plot and that Thomas extorted him for the money using physical violence – knocking out his teeth, injured his left shoulder, and smacking his private parts.
—Sydney Pereira, Miami Herald, 27 Jan. 2026
The organization claims truckers are commonly extorted by police at the stops.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 26 Nov. 2025
By the following year, the FBI had recovered millions of dollars extorted from Colonial Pipeline by Darkside.
—Charlotte Reck, CNN Money, 9 Nov. 2025
This man just could not stop getting extorted, which is not ideal for anyone but is especially unpleasant for the head of MI5.
—Brian Grubb, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for extorted
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Here's how much tariffs have cost Americans Nearly a year later, tariffs have exacted a significant cost on American families.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
10 Feb. 2026
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In return for public investments, research grants, beneficial regulatory treatment, or discretionary nonenforcement of laws, the White House has exacted all manner of commitments from these entities.—
Yuval Levin,
The Atlantic,
20 Jan. 2026
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Two similar situated individuals, both coerced to commit a murder have a different sentencing structure.—
Livi Stanford,
Hartford Courant,
3 Mar. 2026
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Kamaria Nelson, 25, was charged with pandering and robbing the girl, who police say left her group home last year in the company of another teen, two women, and an adult who allegedly coerced her into prostitution.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
2 Mar. 2026
Verb
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The fluctuations hint at an episodic, external source—potentially eruptions from a sort of super-Io satellite being tidally squeezed by its hefty planetary host.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
27 Feb. 2026
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Small businesses, squeezed by the tariffs, may be forced to absorb the loss.—
Phillip Molnar,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Decades of warming have wrung many parts of the US dry.—
Mark Gongloff,
Mercury News,
17 Jan. 2026
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Cover the area with a kitchen towel that has been soaked in hot water and then wrung out.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
The Spruce,
8 Jan. 2026
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Fast forward to 2025 when the total outlays are now north of $7 trillion a year, more than a 360% increase in national spending in the 30 years since term limits were wrested from the American public.—
Boston Herald editorial staff,
Boston Herald,
27 Feb. 2026
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My parents were just children when they were wrested from their homes into tarpaper barracks surrounded by barbed wire.—
Julie Morita,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Feb. 2026
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Airlines around the world have been forced to cancel flights through multiple cities in the area, affecting thousands of global travelers.—
Karla Cripps,
CNN Money,
2 Mar. 2026
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Liz’s view The finance set has been worried about private credit, amplified by the troubles at Blue Owl, where a flood of redemption requests forced the firm to sell assets and look to wind down one of its funds for individual investors.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
2 Mar. 2026
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Mexican cartels have fleeced American victims for hundreds of millions of dollars through timeshare fraud over the decades, treasury officials said, targeted them through call centers staffed by English-speaking telemarketers.—
Marc Ramirez,
USA Today,
26 Feb. 2026
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Compared with the ostensible consequences of the prisoner’s dilemma, getting fleeced in the snowdrift problem’s scenario isn’t quite as disastrous.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
23 Feb. 2026
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“Extorted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extorted. Accessed 6 Mar. 2026.
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