profiteer

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Recent Examples of profiteer As a result, profiteers are searching for and extracting gold under worsening humanitarian and environmental conditions. Sasha Lezhnev, Foreign Affairs, 19 May 2025 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 Israeli officials have accused Hamas of hoarding essential supplies to serve its own members and to wield control over the population, and there have been reports of profiteers seizing aid and then selling it on the black market. Hiba Yazbek, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for profiteer
Recent Examples of Synonyms for profiteer
Noun
  • The romance scam began in July, when the elderly woman, based in Hokkaido, connected with the swindler on social media, AFP and Sky News reported.
    Jillian Frankel, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Meanwhile, posing as the original customer, the swindlers cancelled the order to get a refund.
    Thomas Brewster, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The Shortcut — and Its Risks For aspiring creators, reality TV feels like a cheat code.
    Amanda Marcovitch, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • New research is shedding light on the inner workings of the multimillion-dollar gray market for video game cheats.
    Lily Hay Newman, Wired News, 16 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • There are also many situations where the cheater accepts full responsibility and both parties genuinely want to rebuild trust).
    Jenna Ryu, SELF, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Where the, where the signal is somehow maintaining its honesty, and that cheaters cannot undermine it.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 21 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The demand remains constant, and in 2025, AI tools have revolutionized how side hustlers meet it.
    Sarah Hernholm, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Relations were strained but ultimately peaceful between the families until the wild and unpredictable hustler Baroness Eloise Wehrborn de Wagner-Bosquet (Ana de Armas) and her two lovers, Rudy Lorenz (Felix Kammerer) and Robert Phillipson (Toby Wallace), showed up.
    EW.com, EW.com, 23 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • We’re then introduced to Louie, a thug who works for a loan shark, threatening and killing people.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Their neighbor, an older Jewish woman, gets arrested and Nazi thugs brazenly loot her apartment.
    Rabih Alameddine September 2, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • These changes will also usher in a shift in the way U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) handles customs and tariff enforcement, with both the DOJ and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) laser focused on duty dodgers.
    Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 30 July 2025
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    Zach Pressnell, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 July 2025

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“Profiteer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/profiteer. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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