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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 pimped
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.
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Natalia Paradies, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2025
Natalia Paradies, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pimped
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With Brooklyn’s injury list still swallowing half the rotation and the draft lottery picture tightening by the day, Liddell used Tuesday night as a personal argument.—
C.J. Holmes,
New York Daily News,
8 Apr. 2026
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The lawsuit claims that Missouri lawmakers used no rational basis to categorize which counties qualified for a 5% cap, a freeze or neither.—
Jenna Ebbers,
Kansas City Star,
8 Apr. 2026
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Kaley denied being abused or neglected, though Meta’s attorneys did show some Instagram posts about her mother screaming at her.—
Jeannie Suk Gersen,
New Yorker,
9 Apr. 2026
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Leah Juliett, also a survivor, still remembers the scarlet lockers at Wolcott High School where she was abused.—
Livi Stanford,
Hartford Courant,
8 Apr. 2026
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Much more damning, however, was the manner in which Wrexham’s shortcomings were brutally exploited during what proved to be the club’s biggest home loss since Gateshead ran riot to triumph 7-2 at The Racecourse Ground in 2011.—
Richard Sutcliffe,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2026
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Nevertheless, rumors about Altman’s personal life have been exploited and distorted by competitors.—
Ronan Farrow,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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Additionally, advanced signal-processing techniques can help identify whether messages are genuinely coming from different sources or are being manipulated by a single malicious actor.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Apr. 2026
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During this time, Duggar manipulated the victim’s underwear and grazed her genitals.—
Assistant Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Apr. 2026
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In recent years, Middle East funds have leveraged their trillion-dollar valuations to take stakes in a range of sports, media and tech properties.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
7 Apr. 2026
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Hackers have already leveraged Anthropic’s tools to enable more sophisticated and autonomous attacks.—
Beatrice Nolan,
Fortune,
7 Apr. 2026
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“Pimped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pimped. Accessed 11 Apr. 2026.
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