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
Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 22 July 2025
White was her pimp, records say, and found clients and provided Colbert with security while assisting in stealing from victims.
—Pj Green
july 18, Kansas City Star, 18 July 2025
Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 8 Sep. 2025
In Rolling Stone’s year-end issue for 1990, the first page had loads of stars giving their summary of the year, mostly pimping their latest career highlights.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 23 July 2025
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Noun
The case started on July 1, when a man called police to report three pimps were holding his girlfriend against her will at a hotel on Hegenberger Road in East Oakland.
—Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 22 July 2025
White was her pimp, records say, and found clients and provided Colbert with security while assisting in stealing from victims.
—Pj Green
july 18, Kansas City Star, 18 July 2025
Verb
Jamon Ward, 33, was arrested last month on charges of human trafficking, pimping, trafficking a minor and pandering, court records show.
—Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 8 Sep. 2025
In Rolling Stone’s year-end issue for 1990, the first page had loads of stars giving their summary of the year, mostly pimping their latest career highlights.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 23 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pimp
Noun
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Stainbeck recently joined the Corneilus department and was sworn in last December after working as a cadet and going through the Basic Law Enforcement Training program.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
14 Sep. 2025
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Starring Holly Hunter and Paul Giamatti, the series introduces viewers to a young group of cadets who navigate friendships, rivalries, first loves and a new enemy who threatens both the Academy and the Federation.—
Natalie Oganesyan,
Deadline,
8 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Photonic quantum computing is a quantum computation approach that uses photons—particles of light—as qubits.—
Gil Press,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Zoryve has a unique active ingredient—roflumilast, an enzyme inhibitor that’s being used for the first time in a topical medication.—
Megan McIntyre,
Allure,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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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Gavi is the most prominent procurer and distributor of vaccines to children across the globe.—
Joshua P. Cohen,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
Verb
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More importantly, Penske also describes this dynamic as antitrust behavior from a company abusing what the federal government has already described as Google’s monopoly status in the realm of Internet search.—
Andy Meek,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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The biggest Flock controversy centers on allegations that law enforcement has abused the company’s surveillance network to target women, immigrants, and people engaging in legal activity outside their home states.—
Jennifer Jolly,
USA Today,
14 Sep. 2025
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Jeffrey Breinholt, an architect of the material support statutes who spent three decades as a federal terrorism prosecutor, defends the laws as crucial to closing loopholes that were exploited by foreign militant groups and their domestic sympathizers.—
Hannah Allam,
ProPublica,
10 Sep. 2025
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Her 23-year-old son, Rahjah Ke’ Morton, recently accused her of exploiting his past cancer diagnosis for personal gain.—
Essence,
Essence,
10 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Counterterrorism strategies must continue to adapt to meet this evolving battleground, leveraging not only military and intelligence tools but also public-private partnerships with tech platforms, AI monitoring, and global diplomacy.—
Richard Frankel,
ABC News,
11 Sep. 2025
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The new strategy aims to leverage Ford’s iconic brand while simultaneously signaling that the car company is entering a new era, Materazzo said.—
Laya Neelakandan,
CNBC,
10 Sep. 2025
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In this approach, quantum information is encoded in various properties of photons, and computation is performed by manipulating these photonic states using optical components.—
Gil Press,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Tahoe is obviously getting more aggressive with icon-shape enforcement, up to and including automatically manipulating them and sentencing them to icon jail.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Pimp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pimp. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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