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Recent Examples of profiteer
As a result, profiteers are searching for and extracting gold under worsening humanitarian and environmental conditions.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for profiteer
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Serial swindlers and men prone to violence are among the seven people Colorado’s gambling regulators have banned for life from casinos since the state created a system last year for barring problem bettors.—
Noelle Phillips,
Denver Post,
20 Oct. 2025
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McKelway, who wrote for the magazine from the nineteen-thirties to the sixties, specialized in true-crime stories, bringing to life a gallery of scamps and swindlers and impostors.—
David Grann,
New Yorker,
19 Oct. 2025
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Her character also has a fake handicapped license plate and cheats at golf.—
Tracy Wright,
FOXNews.com,
21 Oct. 2025
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No one cheats like college football.—
Nicole Fallert,
USA Today,
10 Oct. 2025
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After all, who doesn't want a cheater button now and again and just let the motor do all the work for you?—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
7 Oct. 2025
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Seemingly overnight, everyone knew Ned was a cheater.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
18 Sep. 2025
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And next January, plus-sized racist BLM hustler Monica Cannon-Grant gets locked up for a good long stretch.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
19 Oct. 2025
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Gus Van Sant’s landmark drama is chiefly remembered for River Phoenix’s nakedly anguished performance as Mike, a spiritually adrift gay hustler.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
18 Oct. 2025
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This haunting film was also his first collaboration with Hellboy’s Ron Perlman, who plays a thug out to get the beetle for his rich uncle.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
17 Oct. 2025
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In The Big Lebowski, thugs mistake the titular slacker (Bridges) for the wealthy Jeffrey Lebowski, sending him on a wild investigation with his pal Walter (John Goodman) into a ransom plot involving Lebowski’s young wife (Tara Reid).—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
8 Oct. 2025
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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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Blue Jays Trade Rumors Reaching New Peak Read more Los angeles dodgers Sandy Alcántara Trade?—
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 28 Oct. 2025.
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