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Recent Examples of extortedShannon was going through the worst thing in her life last year — getting a DUI and then being extorted for $75,000 by her ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend who crashed the show — and what did Tamra do?—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2025 Freedom of Speech is far more American than a hundred-thousand-dollar-per-plate dinner at Mar-a-Lago or trips to Epstein Island or bullying a network into cancelling Steven Colbert or bragging about having extorted $16 million from a movie studio.—Billy Ray, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2025 Diplomats told investigators that some foreign nationals were extorted as much as $10,000 to avoid arrest at checkpoints.—Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 23 Sep. 2025 His fortune also faced some hits as he was allegedly extorted.—Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025 The neo-noir thriller, which is an adaptation of Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low, follows David King (Washington), a successful music executive who gets extorted by an up-and-coming rapper (A$AP Rocky).—Taryn Finley, Refinery29, 18 Aug. 2025
Freeman took rookie Chad Patrick deep for the first Dodgers run, and his teammates squeezed a second run out of Brewers closer Abner Uribe in the ninth.
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Andy McCullough,
New York Times,
14 Oct. 2025
The iPhone 17′s margin could also be squeezed by an unfavorable product mix and a higher bill of materials cost.
The more there is, the more that can be wrung out by storms.
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Chris Dolce,
CNN Money,
10 Oct. 2025
Others wrung riches from the network; Berners-Lee assumed the mantle of moral authority, fighting to safeguard the web’s openness and promote equitable access.
The anger mirrors recent protests against ruling elites in countries including Nepal, where the prime minister was forced to resign last month, and Morocco.
He was emboldened by the Netflix doc to make another Herschel Walker trade and got fleeced!
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Jon Machota,
New York Times,
24 Sep. 2025
All the trucks that Buck Strickland buys his investors in episode 10 are from Bronco Barry’s car dealership, which fleeced Bobby into buying a horse a few episodes earlier.
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Jake Harris,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
27 Aug. 2025
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