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racketeered

verb

past tense of racketeer
as in blackjacked

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for racketeered
  1. forced
  2. extorted
  3. blackmailed
  4. squeezed
  5. compelled
  6. obliged
  7. coerced
  8. constrained
Verb
  • The Wildcats had started the drive on the Colorado 44 after Michael Kilbane forced running back Micah Welch to fumble, and Fitzgerald recovered it.
    — Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2026
  • The Knights were forced to settle for a 24-yard field goal by Stone, his third kick of the game.
    — Matt Murschel, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of forced
Verb
  • Clement later successfully extorted one of Roshanki’s friends for $5,000 in drug proceeds, then insisted that Roshanski owed him money for drugs and fraud.
    — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 27 Aug. 2026
  • The police chief allegedly extorted the victim and the victim’s father in connection with the pending murder case.
    — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026
Definition of extorted
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  • Assassination-for-hire is the tragicomic domain of people looking for someone to kill a spouse or a rival but getting blackmailed by teenagers pretending to be hit men in the process.
    — Finn Brunton, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Although Sheldon was initially blackmailed into meeting Amy, the duo quickly bonded over their similarities and went on their first official date in season 4.
    — Joyann Jeffrey, PEOPLE, 22 Aug. 2026
Definition of blackmailed
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  • With Hamas squeezed, Netanyahu asked the Qataris to commit to official monthly payments to Gaza.
    — Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026
  • News organizations large and small are being squeezed like never before.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of squeezed
Verb
  • But many in the party have felt compelled to embrace parts of his ideology.
    — Jack Herrera, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Those on the inside were initially compelled to make fun of it.
    — Entertainment Weekly, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of compelled
Verb
  • The new owner obliged, as Soyka at the time, eyes filled with tears, discussed the turnover of Soyka in late 2018 to what became the now closed Latin American restaurant Chica.
    — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Winters was obliged to apologize, pointing out that Standard Chartered was investing heavily in retraining teams.
    — Kamal Ahmed, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of obliged
Verb
  • Williams also asked Saab whether anyone had threatened or coerced him into changing his plea.
    — Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Michael Cohen, the president’s former personal attorney, was the prosecution’s star witness but has since publicly stated that Bragg and New York Attorney General Letitia James coerced him into cooperating.
    — Christian Datoc, The Washington Examiner, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of coerced
Verb
  • Increasing the number of mobile charge carriers can improve conductivity, but conventional chemical doping approaches can be constrained by chemical and thermodynamic limits.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2026
  • But if every meaningful decision requires the founder’s involvement, growth will eventually be constrained by one person’s capacity.
    — Sariki Abungwo, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of constrained
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“Racketeered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/racketeered. Accessed 22 Sep. 2026.

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