racketeered

past tense of racketeer

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for racketeered
Verb
  • The attack forced hundreds of migrants to seek shelter in churches and mosques, according to state broadcaster SABC.
    Nimi Princewill, CNN Money, 29 June 2026
  • But the Department of Homeland Security let go a third of CISA employees in 2025 through buyouts, early retirements, forced reassignments and sweeping layoffs.
    Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 28 June 2026
Verb
  • The necessity of it to my defence against a more heinous charge could alone have extorted from me so painful an indecorum.
    Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 June 2026
  • Richards attained fame as a pioneering male supermodel in major ad campaigns by the likes of Bruce Weber, Richard Avedon, and Helmut Newton, but all along he was being extorted and exploited by Mierers and his followers to bolster (and bankroll) their shaky, pseudoscientific philosophy.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 16 June 2026
Verb
  • However, the politics are complicated as Long Feng (Chin Han) tries to keep the Earth King from knowing about the war and is eventually blackmailed into corruption by the Fire Nation princess, Azula (Elizabeth Yu).
    Skyler Trepel, PEOPLE, 26 June 2026
  • He was never blackmailed by Epstein.
    Graham Kates, CBS News, 26 June 2026
Verb
  • The performance uptick that Motorola squeezed from the 2026 Razr+ is minor at best, with results showing no significant year-over-year gains.
    Kimberly Gedeon, PC Magazine, 29 June 2026
  • There was Paris squeezed between meetings on a fleeting work trip.
    Alisha Prakash, Travel + Leisure, 27 June 2026
Verb
  • In May, Jolie scored a victory of her own when Judge Pánuco determined that she was not required to provide Pitt's attorneys with access to 22 unredacted emails after previous rulings compelled her legal team to do so.
    Edward Segarra, USA Today, 27 June 2026
  • In the modern admissions process, particularly at selective schools, students are compelled to conflate their self-worth with their ability to package themselves as marketable products.
    Scott White, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
Verb
  • Even with that 2024 ruling and last year’s trial, Rinsch hasn’t paid back Netflix anything, though he still is obliged to.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 29 June 2026
  • Not everyone is lonely; some women, no longer obliged to marry, are probably happier and freer.
    Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026
Verb
  • Enterprises that route requests between multiple models can be coerced into selecting the weakest route.
    Janakiram MSV, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • The study was later shut down after an internal review confirmed that patients were coerced into participating.
    Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 24 June 2026
Verb
  • So far, Milei has defended his Cabinet chief, even as the scandal damaged his government’s public image, constrained his political leverage in negotiations with allies and undermined his communication about spending cuts to Argentines scraping by on salaries that increasingly fall behind inflation.
    Clara Preve, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2026
  • Private equity acquirers, particularly add-on platforms, are constrained by senior-debt service ratios that mechanically discount concentration risk.
    Ron Smith, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
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“Racketeered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/racketeered. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.

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