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to remove objectionable parts from
had to launder the quarterback's off-the-cuff's remarks before they could be quoted in the newspaper
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Recent Examples of laundering
In all, Jubair faces US charges of computer fraud conspiracy, computer fraud, wire fraud conspiracy, wire fraud, and money laundering conspiracy.
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Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 19 Sep. 2025
The couple and their two young children are forced to flee Chicago to a summer resort community in the Ozarks after a money-laundering scheme goes wrong.
—Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2025
Cosenza, 67, the third defendant in the foreign corruption indictment, pleaded guilty in August to a money-laundering charge.
—Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 16 Sep. 2025
The fallout from Singapore's money-laundering scandal and high-profile crypto failures like Three Arrows Capital and FTX triggered an aggressive compliance push in 2024, according to Iris Xu, founder of corporate services firm Jenga, whose clients are wealthy mainland Chinese in Singapore.
—Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2025
Patel would face a maximum of 20 years behind bars and more than $500,000 in fines, or twice the value of the property involved, if convicted of the money laundering conspiracy.
—Chris Ramirez, jsonline.com, 9 Sep. 2025
This triggered a witch hunt within the UIF money-laundering watchdog, led by Paul Starc, who was promoted by Caputo.
—Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Bowyer would plead guilty to running a book, laundering money, and filing a false tax return, cooperating with their investigation so long as his associates — Greenberg, Boyajian, the network of nearly 50 agents who brought him players — were granted immunity.
—David Amsden, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2025
When his harebrained money-laundering scheme loses millions of the cartel’s cash, Hanson is caught in a web of dangerous debt, absurd criminal mishap and a huge FBI takedown.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 28 Aug. 2025
Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 19 Sep. 2025
The couple and their two young children are forced to flee Chicago to a summer resort community in the Ozarks after a money-laundering scheme goes wrong.
—Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2025
Cosenza, 67, the third defendant in the foreign corruption indictment, pleaded guilty in August to a money-laundering charge.
—Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 16 Sep. 2025
The fallout from Singapore's money-laundering scandal and high-profile crypto failures like Three Arrows Capital and FTX triggered an aggressive compliance push in 2024, according to Iris Xu, founder of corporate services firm Jenga, whose clients are wealthy mainland Chinese in Singapore.
—Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2025
Patel would face a maximum of 20 years behind bars and more than $500,000 in fines, or twice the value of the property involved, if convicted of the money laundering conspiracy.
—Chris Ramirez, jsonline.com, 9 Sep. 2025
This triggered a witch hunt within the UIF money-laundering watchdog, led by Paul Starc, who was promoted by Caputo.
—Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Bowyer would plead guilty to running a book, laundering money, and filing a false tax return, cooperating with their investigation so long as his associates — Greenberg, Boyajian, the network of nearly 50 agents who brought him players — were granted immunity.
—David Amsden, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2025
When his harebrained money-laundering scheme loses millions of the cartel’s cash, Hanson is caught in a web of dangerous debt, absurd criminal mishap and a huge FBI takedown.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 28 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for laundering
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By monitoring and censoring the titles that libraries can carry, book bans ultimately serve to discredit these institutions’ authority and justify defunding them.—
Alex Wermer-Colan,
The Conversation,
1 Oct. 2025
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The film was finished in 2019, but the Bolsonaro government withheld funding for its distribution, effectively censoring the movie.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Sep. 2025
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The company’s ethos is centered on significantly shortening the drug discovery and development process, ultimately creating medicines to treat the most significant killers, starting with aggressive cancers like breast cancer, prostate cancer, and lymphoma.—
Alexa Mikhail,
Flow Space,
29 Sep. 2025
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For adult projects, Alloy works with the writer to develop a full manuscript, and Morgenstein finds this step a way of shortening the process.—
Dessi Gomez,
Deadline,
26 Sep. 2025
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Eric Lu, the co-founder of the online video editing software program Kapwing, has offered AI image generation to his customers for several years, starting with Stable Diffusion.—
Andrew R. Chow,
Time,
1 Oct. 2025
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The series earned four Emmy nominations, for director James Burrows and for production design, sound mixing for a half-hour series and picture editing for a multi-camera comedy.—
Rick Porter,
HollywoodReporter,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Laundering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laundering. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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