Thesaurus results for PROFITEER

profiteer

noun

as in swindler

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Recent Examples of profiteer 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 Meanwhile, advancement of AI has emboldened corporate profiteers who have already extracted fortunes from government technology investment, and see orders of magnitude greater opportunities to sell tech products with AI. —

Bruce Schneier, Time, 7 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 And until that changes, the answer to the only question that matters — who benefits? — will stay the same: not the flesh-and-blood people who make the work possible, but the corporations and startup profiteers who cash in on the churn. —

Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for profiteer

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The New York Times later reported that Bankman-Fried was placed in solitary confinement because the crypto swindler violated the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ rules.

— Andrew Zucker, HollywoodReporter, 13 Feb. 2026
But the fake ads include the swindler’s contact information instead of the real landlord’s.

— Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 23 Jan. 2026