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Recent Examples of profiteer
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.
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Hiba Yazbek, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
Yet sanctions seemed not to touch those who rose to wealth during the war: looters, smugglers, and war profiteers protected by the regime.
—Loubna Mrie, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2024
For a quarter century we have been misled by a chorus of neocon war hawks, defense industry profiteers, think tank courtiers and media opportunists.
—Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
Genocide profiteers like Raytheon supply weapons to the IDF, paid for by our taxes.
—Omar Gallaga, Austin American-Statesman, 6 Mar. 2024
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Hiba Yazbek, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
Yet sanctions seemed not to touch those who rose to wealth during the war: looters, smugglers, and war profiteers protected by the regime.
—Loubna Mrie, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2024
For a quarter century we have been misled by a chorus of neocon war hawks, defense industry profiteers, think tank courtiers and media opportunists.
—Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
Genocide profiteers like Raytheon supply weapons to the IDF, paid for by our taxes.
—Omar Gallaga, Austin American-Statesman, 6 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for profiteer
Noun
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There will always be bugs, exploits, cheats or simply overpowered options to reduce the challenge in any game.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
8 May 2025
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But a rolling pin with numeric markers provides an easy cheat when measuring out the length or diameter of doughs.—
Lauren Joseph,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
11 Apr. 2025
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In previous seasons, he was known to be a serial cheater and womanizer.—
Taylor Crumpton,
Essence,
11 Apr. 2025
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Surely, this shows the United States to be the cheater in these two relationships.—
Eswar Prasad,
Foreign Affairs,
3 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Here’s hoping the two actors can help Russell recapture his touch with this story of a pool hustler and his prodigy.—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
13 May 2025
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But no expansion teams are coming to take their place, no matter what the hustlers tell you.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
24 Mar. 2025
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There’s no dearth of evil Imperial thugs in Andor — however, one character who seems to exist in a complicated moral gray is Lonni Jung (Robert Emms), a fellow ISB officer who attends Partagaz’s closed-door briefings alongside Dedra but relays the Empire’s plans to Luthen in secret.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Vulture,
21 Apr. 2025
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Speaking of the stand: The prosecution’s main witness changes her damning testimony against Gomez when one of his thugs — the same guy that was trying to get Noah to get in his car — arrives in court and glares menacingly from the back row.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
17 Apr. 2025
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The layoffs of roughly 7,000 Internal Revenue Service probationary workers beginning this week probably mean the end of the agency’s plan to go after high-wealth tax dodgers and could spell disaster for revenue collection, experts say.—
Fatima Hussein,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Feb. 2025
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The baseball world will look back at this era of dodger baseball 30 years from now and have nothing but fond memories and positive things to say about it.—
Fabian Ardaya,
The Athletic,
23 Jan. 2025
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“Profiteer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/profiteer. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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