as in cadet
a man who solicits clients for a woman who is willing to engage in sexual activities for money
the sting operation nabbed 15 prostitutes and two pimps
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as in to use
to take unfair advantage of
a movie actress who pimped everybody she ever met as she clawed her way to the top
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Recent Examples of pimp
Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2025
Of the girls in that cohort, many were sold to brothels in Asia; others were shipped to pimps in Europe or married off to pedophiles abroad.
—Natalia Paradies, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2025
Tim Fang, CBS News, 17 Nov. 2025
For five years, Ave and the other children trapped there — three of them aged six and under — were brutally pimped by their trafficker until a neighbor summoned the cops.
—Natalia Paradies, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2025
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Noun
In the ad, Mamdani runs through the streets and eats rice with his hands as a domestic abuser, a pimp, and a drug dealer offer their support for the politician.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2025
Of the girls in that cohort, many were sold to brothels in Asia; others were shipped to pimps in Europe or married off to pedophiles abroad.
—Natalia Paradies, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2025
Verb
The suspects were arrested on charges of pimping, pandering, supervising prostitution activities and soliciting prostitution.
—Tim Fang, CBS News, 17 Nov. 2025
For five years, Ave and the other children trapped there — three of them aged six and under — were brutally pimped by their trafficker until a neighbor summoned the cops.
—Natalia Paradies, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pimp
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The California State University San Marcos Reserve Officers’ Training Corps cadets, Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps cadets from Mission Hills High School, San Marcos High School, Woodland Park Middle School, and Boys and Girl Scout troops will assist with the ceremony.—
Linda Mcintosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Nov. 2025
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In the late 1990s, Farzam was a police cadet at the Santa Barbara Police Department.—
Ray Sanchez,
CNN Money,
2 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Privacy and partners Lenovo built Qira using a hybrid AI architecture.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Jan. 2026
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Soft, spreadable butter that can be used instantly on toast and biscuits, or in baking recipes for cookies, cakes, and more.—
Alicia Geigel,
Southern Living,
7 Jan. 2026
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Federal procurers could take a lesson from the finance corporation JPMorgan Chase, which recently issued an open letter to its software suppliers setting clear expectations that their products should prioritize security over rushing features to market.—
JEN EASTERLY,
Foreign Affairs,
16 Oct. 2025
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Ties reached their lowest ebb in January 2010 after the Israeli security service Mossad dispatched a 27-strong death squad to Dubai to assassinate Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a senior weapons procurer for Hamas.—
Kristian Coates Ulrichsen,
The Conversation,
10 Sep. 2025
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The pair also pretended that Tammy was allegedly abusing them.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
9 Nov. 2025
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In handing down the sentence, Montenegro said Bonillo understood the scope of his misdeeds, abused his position of trust and used that position to enrich himself while undermining CBP’s main goal.—
Alex Riggins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Nov. 2025
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Outside the capital, guerrilla groups and organized crime syndicates are exploiting the power vacuum along Venezuela’s borders and in its resource-rich interior.—
Emma Bussey,
FOXNews.com,
9 Jan. 2026
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The final part of the dormancy evolution puzzle is what ecologists refer to as the ecological niche a species occupies — the specific set of conditions that species evolved to exploit or the conditions under which that species is likely to be more successful when compared to other species.—
Paul Cappiello,
Louisville Courier Journal,
9 Jan. 2026
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Weiser, who is running for governor in this year’s election, characterized the attacks as Trump trying to leverage the power of the executive branch to exercise unconstitutional authority over how individual states conduct elections and oversee their criminal justice systems.—
Nick Coltrain,
Denver Post,
9 Jan. 2026
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But a constant churn of financial maneuvers (spinning off Saks’ e-commerce, creating co-working spaces in underutilized stores, all while being highly leveraged) brought some benefit but never obviated the need to invest more in basics.—
Phil Wahba,
Fortune,
8 Jan. 2026
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An onboard synthesizer manipulates a small set of core sounds to mimic everything from the roar of a jet plane to the flushing of a toilet through a little speaker in the Brick.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
6 Jan. 2026
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In some cases, CBS News ran images through AI detection tools, which can be inconsistent or inaccurate but can still help flag possibly manipulated content.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
6 Jan. 2026
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“Pimp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pimp. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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