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profiteer

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Definition of profiteer

as in swindler

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Recent Examples of profiteer But Congo has long been part of a frustrating region for would-be peacemakers and profiteers. — Nicolas Niarchos, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026 Last month, Gaines’ pecuniary gains were at the center of an 80-minute episode of the investigative sports podcast, Pablo Torre Finds Out, which cast her as a profiteer posing as a crusader for women. — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 23 Dec. 2025 Facebook stands accused of giving unscrupulous profiteers, politicians, and anyone else willing to pay the ability to change minds about everything from who to vote for to whether to get the vaccine. — Simon Hill, Wired News, 17 Nov. 2025 Artificial intelligence is billed by its profiteers as a new frontier for technology and humanity, but generative AI often perpetuates existing social harms. — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for profiteer

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The former swindler’s crimes were revisited in the 2026 Paramount+ docuseries The Real Wolf of Wall Street.

— Erica Marrison, PEOPLE, 16 July 2026
The decade ended tumultuously, with the Osmond family’s fortune drained by a series of swindlers and grifters.

— Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2026

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Part of the appeal comes down to the versatility of the blank slate, but an outsized amount of credit has to go to the community of hustlers in New York City.

— Olivia Cigliano, Footwear News, 28 Sep. 2026
Still, Beck didn’t seem to want to talk, in private or in the media, about having grown up as the child of a successful music-industry hustler — much less one who was so proudly and publicly involved with a controversial religious movement.

— Josephine Reisman, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2026

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The residents occasionally gather in a disused rec center but the meetings devolve into rants about immigrants, junkies, thugs and vigilantism.

— Jessica Kiang, Variety, 26 Sep. 2026
That a Christian man was responsible for the devastation in Oklahoma City certainly didn’t matter to the thugs who terrorized a Muslim woman there, nearly seven months pregnant, by attacking her home, breaking her windows, screaming religious slurs.

— Reshma Memon Yaqub, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026

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The White House is now cracking down on these tariff dodgers.

— Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2026
Ukraine faces severe personnel shortages with around 200,000 military desertions and 2 million draft-dodgers, threatening its ability to sustain the war against Russia’s 2022 invasion.

— Kirsten Grieshaber, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2026

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