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Recent Examples of profiteer
Punching Bags Institutional landlords have been favored punching bags over the last decade, with critics painting the firms as profiteers that gained from the US foreclosure crisis and exacerbated affordability challenges that have reached historic proportions.
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Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
8 Jan. 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.
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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.
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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.
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Andre Gee,
Rolling Stone,
23 Oct. 2025
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Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
8 Jan. 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for profiteer
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The decade ended tumultuously, with the Osmond family’s fortune drained by a series of swindlers and grifters.
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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.
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And then Bobby is just a cheat code for comedy writers.
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More flaglantry detrimental to learning, plenty more use the tech to generate entire essays and solve math problems — or, in a word, cheat.
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This kind of thinking can allow students who sometimes cheat to not think of themselves as cheaters.
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This kind of thinking can allow students who sometimes cheat to not think of themselves as cheaters.
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The supporting cast was a pleasant surprise, but it was filled mostly with low-usage hustlers.
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The beloved Christmas film found Murphy's street hustler Billy Ray and Aykroyd's wealthy businessman Louis swapping lives as a result of a nature versus nurture bet between Louis' bosses.
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Ditto Hugh Jackman’s unerring performance — perhaps his finest dramatic work yet — as a savage, unfeeling thug and unrepentant murderer and thief.
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The actions of these thugs, who should be imprisoned for a long while, is the cause of denying real Knicks fans the chance to watch the game communally.
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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.
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Almost all other passengers dine at the Britannia Restaurant, and there’s also a buffet restaurant serving international cuisine, with options for vegans, vegetarians and dairy dodgers.
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“Profiteer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/profiteer. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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