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In practice, the fund is becoming a feeding frenzy for Wall Street profiteers and trial attorneys, eating away at public dollars intended for recovery.—
Adam Kovacevich,
Oc Register,
18 Aug. 2025 -
Many of America's policymakers and all its addiction profiteers keep insisting weed is safe, healthy, and natural.—
Kevin Sabet,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 July 2025
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But he's been a swindler his entire life.—
Adeola Adeosun,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Nov. 2025
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Serial swindlers and men prone to violence are among the seven people Colorado’s gambling regulators have banned for life from casinos since the state created a system last year for barring problem bettors.—
Noelle Phillips,
Denver Post,
20 Oct. 2025
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For most of modern American history, the only legal place to bet was Nevada, and that was seldom, if ever, the place cheaters chose to place their bets.—
David Hill,
Rolling Stone,
31 Oct. 2025
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After all, who doesn't want a cheater button now and again and just let the motor do all the work for you?—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
7 Oct. 2025
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Yet as Russian war atrocities have become more evident, and Ukraine’s need for heavy armor has increased, the lines have grown blurrier and the rhetoric sharper.—
David E. Sanger,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2022
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Both offer blistering acceleration and sharper handling than the standard model.—
Eric Stafford,
Car and Driver,
19 Feb. 2021
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What’s your favorite cheat food?—
Scott Feinberg,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Nov. 2025
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Most victims begin by searching for free or cracked software, cheat tools or game hacks, which is the root of the infection chain.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
3 Nov. 2025
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But my collection intentionally ignored the fraudulent exploits of billionaire heirs, tax dodgers and corporate magnates — defense contracts, government lobbying, bank accounts in Switzerland, shell companies in Panama, citizenship of Antigua and political asylum in London.—
Snigdha Poonam,
The Dial,
28 Oct. 2025
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Denise Rich, a Democratic donor, gave four hundred and fifty thousand dollars to his Presidential-library foundation, and Clinton, on his final day in office, pardoned her ex-husband, Marc Rich, a tax dodger and a sanctions evader who’d fled to Switzerland.—
David D. Kirkpatrick,
New Yorker,
11 Aug. 2025
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The film is also the director’s love letter to a bygone Los Angeles era, a lost world of louche glamor, with actors, directors, hippies, and hustlers roaming the city’s studio lots, canyons, and hills.—
Jay Glennie,
Rolling Stone,
28 Oct. 2025
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HeadHuncho Amir comes from a family of hustlers.—
Michael Saponara,
Billboard,
27 Oct. 2025
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Ciri, unbeknowest to her surrogate ma and pa, is free of her Nilfgaardian captors and on the run with a band of adolescent ruffians, and perhaps figuring out how to take care of herself.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
30 Oct. 2025
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When both young people meet their end the Baron saves Christina by putting Hans’ brain in Christina’s body, uniting their blurred identities in a joint thirst for revenge, creating a Gothic avenger who hunts down the aristocratic ruffians who ruined their happiness.—
Rory Doherty,
Vulture,
20 Oct. 2025
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“Gouger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gouger. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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