extortioner

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Noun
  • The other is about Chicago-style gangsters circa 1929.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Yes, there are gangster films, the crime movies, and then there’s The Wolf of Wall Street, which is a really profound piece of work.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • This haunting film was also his first collaboration with Hellboy’s Ron Perlman, who plays a thug out to get the beetle for his rich uncle.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2025
  • In The Big Lebowski, thugs mistake the titular slacker (Bridges) for the wealthy Jeffrey Lebowski, sending him on a wild investigation with his pal Walter (John Goodman) into a ransom plot involving Lebowski’s young wife (Tara Reid).
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • These kinds of sweeping outages are typically the result either of ransomware attacks, where online extortionists paralyse corporate networks in the hope of payment, or deliberate sabotage.
    Reuters, NBC news, 20 Sep. 2025
  • These kinds of sweeping outages are typically the result either of ransomware attacks, where online extortionists paralyze corporate networks in the hope of payment, or deliberate digital sabotage.
    Reuters, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Things get complicated when Shay recruits the neighborhood creep for backup and Yaki brings in an ex-cop to smoke out his blackmailer.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025
  • This guy was the greatest blackmailer ever.
    Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In a police photograph, Lansky stood next to racketeer Charles (Lucky) Luciano.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2025
  • In the other corner: Vito Genovese, Costello’s childhood friend and fellow racketeer, who had to leave town long ago because of a thing, and has now come home to resume his place in the Mafia hierarchy.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2025
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“Extortioner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extortioner. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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