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Recent Examples of extorted
Richards attained fame as a pioneering male supermodel in major ad campaigns by the likes of Bruce Weber, Richard Avedon, and Helmut Newton, but all along he was being extorted and exploited by Mierers and his followers to bolster (and bankroll) their shaky, pseudoscientific philosophy.
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Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 16 June 2026
Cutaia, who has a criminal record dating back to the 1990s, extorted two businessmen starting in 2023 — even before his release from federal prison at the end of his 15-year sentence.
—John Annese, New York Daily News, 15 June 2026
But Ancel Glink representatives said Odelson, Murphey, Frazier and McGrath overstepped by petitioning to represent Calumet City in both a labor dispute and a lawsuit where a former employee claims Jones extorted him and wrongfully terminated his employment.
—Olivia Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2026
The court found that the girl’s mother extorted thousands of dollars from Franco.
—Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2026
To dispose of his body, the group allegedly used a familiar method, placing it in a crematorium furnace in a local funeral home whose owner was being extorted by another Hells Angels member.
—Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2026
Kraken, one of the world’s oldest crypto exchanges, said it’s being extorted by a criminal group that claims to have access to some client account information.
—Olga Kharif, Bloomberg, 13 Apr. 2026
At least three organizations have been extorted and suffered hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages after proprietary information was posted online by IT workers.
—Lisa Cavazuti, NBC news, 15 Mar. 2026
Alex LaMorie, the 25-year-old man with autism shot dead by police on March 1, called the police because he was being extorted, Howard County Police Chief Gregory Der revealed Thursday.
—April Santana, Baltimore Sun, 12 Mar. 2026
Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 16 June 2026
Cutaia, who has a criminal record dating back to the 1990s, extorted two businessmen starting in 2023 — even before his release from federal prison at the end of his 15-year sentence.
—John Annese, New York Daily News, 15 June 2026
But Ancel Glink representatives said Odelson, Murphey, Frazier and McGrath overstepped by petitioning to represent Calumet City in both a labor dispute and a lawsuit where a former employee claims Jones extorted him and wrongfully terminated his employment.
—Olivia Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2026
The court found that the girl’s mother extorted thousands of dollars from Franco.
—Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2026
To dispose of his body, the group allegedly used a familiar method, placing it in a crematorium furnace in a local funeral home whose owner was being extorted by another Hells Angels member.
—Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2026
Kraken, one of the world’s oldest crypto exchanges, said it’s being extorted by a criminal group that claims to have access to some client account information.
—Olga Kharif, Bloomberg, 13 Apr. 2026
At least three organizations have been extorted and suffered hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages after proprietary information was posted online by IT workers.
—Lisa Cavazuti, NBC news, 15 Mar. 2026
Alex LaMorie, the 25-year-old man with autism shot dead by police on March 1, called the police because he was being extorted, Howard County Police Chief Gregory Der revealed Thursday.
—April Santana, Baltimore Sun, 12 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for extorted
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Advertisement The conflict has also exacted a human price.—
Rebecca Schneid,
Time,
21 June 2026
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Iran has demanded the right to collect money from ships using the strait, and in some cases has already exacted payment to let ships leave.—
David McHugh,
Los Angeles Times,
15 June 2026
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But the judges said Thursday there was no evidence of torture and that investigators did not appear to have coerced the confessions.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
11 June 2026
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Lured by the promise of well-paying jobs, hundreds of thousands of people like them have been coerced into engaging in scams such as posing as women online, cultivating intimate relationships with foreigners to defraud them of their savings.—
Kayla Hayempour,
NBC news,
8 June 2026
Verb
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As Pino sobbed, family members of Lucy Fernandez squeezed into the wood courtroom pews behind Adams while Pino’s supporters sat behind him.—
Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
19 June 2026
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Almost the entire population of Gaza, more than 2 million people, has been squeezed into vast, squalid tent cities dependent on international aid.—
Melanie Lidman,
Chicago Tribune,
19 June 2026
Verb
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Until the last drop congeals and the last pearl is wrung out.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 June 2026
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Lindsay is eternally clocking in to do her job, to make sure that the sponge of this show has been so thoroughly wrung that there is not even a droplet of drama left inside.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
10 June 2026
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That was when microbes wrested energy from light and, in the process, breathed new life into the world.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
10 June 2026
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Control was wrested back towards the end of the period, a sign of better things to come, even if that profligacy that has dogged them so much reared once again in stoppage time at the end of the half.—
Matt Woosnam,
New York Times,
28 May 2026
Verb
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Extreme heat and dry, windy conditions fueled several wildfires in the West on Sunday, including an uncontained blaze in Utah that forced the evacuation of a small town southwest of Salt Lake City.—
Valerie Gonzalez,
Los Angeles Times,
22 June 2026
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In 1976, the Bicentennial followed the traumas of the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal that had forced President Richard Nixon's resignation.—
Susan Page,
USA Today,
22 June 2026
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At his sentencing in 2024, Bailyn, the prosecutor, described Lorquet as a greedy criminal who fleeced his country at one of its weakest moments in history.—
Jay Weaver,
Miami Herald,
8 June 2026
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The lesson from the parking deal is not merely that the city got fleeced by private investors.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
28 May 2026
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“Extorted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extorted. Accessed 24 Jun. 2026.
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