as in profiteer
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Amid the uproar, L.A.’s Department of Recreation and Parks introduced a pilot program to curb the profiteers.—
Ryan Fonseca,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Mar. 2025 -
Ye then called for Cohen to make amends with the Black community for being a profiteer of their trauma and pain, invoking the name of late Murder Inc.—
Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
13 Feb. 2025
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And who defends America, not trade cheaters all over the globe.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Apr. 2025
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In the video, O'Sullivan praised the stranger and expressed her love for women who weren't afraid to expose cheaters.—
Mark Davis,
Newsweek,
14 Mar. 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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To his supporters, the bluff and feints were all tactics of a master negotiator taking on the world’s trade cheats.—
Laurent Belsie,
Christian Science Monitor,
11 Apr. 2025
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In addition, in the Fall of 2024 the IRS-CI increased its efforts against wealthy tax cheats with actions against 1,600 taxpayers earning more than a million dollars a year which by July of 2024 had already brought in $1 billion in collections.—
Steve Weisman,
Forbes.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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The layoffs of roughly 7,000 Internal Revenue Service probationary workers beginning this week probably mean the end of the agency’s plan to go after high-wealth tax dodgers and could spell disaster for revenue collection, experts say.—
Fatima Hussein,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Feb. 2025
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The baseball world will look back at this era of dodger baseball 30 years from now and have nothing but fond memories and positive things to say about it.—
Fabian Ardaya,
The Athletic,
23 Jan. 2025
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Tatum starred as Shawn MacArthur, a small-time street hustler who sells counterfeit wares before being recruited to make money by participating in amateur street fights.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
20 Mar. 2025
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More than half of side hustlers juggle multiple side hustles to create several income streams, with most using it as a secondary, supplementary source of income.—
Rachel Wells,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 2025
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Friends and neighbors worried that these rumors could attract dangerous young ruffians who might harm them and steal the money.—
Mara Bovsun,
New York Daily News,
15 Dec. 2024
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Troy Stecher is a puck-mover with some two-way ability but is not considered a ruffian in the corners and in front of the net.—
Allan Mitchell,
The Athletic,
9 Aug. 2024
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Letterman may be the obvious precedent but Mulaney’s delivery is less snide than lightly panicked, as if some Netflix thugs have their hands on a switch off-camera, eager to cut to black.—
Christopher Borrelli,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Apr. 2025
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The Depardieu shtick — his public persona as a crude, working-class thug — was on full display.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
2 Apr. 2025
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“Gouger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gouger. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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