racketeered

past tense of racketeer

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for racketeered
Verb
  • As a result, the government is now forced to sell even more oil on the black market at a discount to evade US government sanctions, one of the economists in Caracas told CNN.
    Stefano Pozzebon, CNN Money, 11 Nov. 2025
  • This was not the only notable injury on offense for the Packers in Week 9, as rookie wide receiver Matthew Golden was also forced to exit the game with a shoulder injury.
    Reice Shipley, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • By the following year, the FBI had recovered millions of dollars extorted from Colonial Pipeline by Darkside.
    Charlotte Reck, CNN Money, 9 Nov. 2025
  • This man just could not stop getting extorted, which is not ideal for anyone but is especially unpleasant for the head of MI5.
    Brian Grubb, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The bill was inspired by a Wisconsin teen who died by suicide after being blackmailed.
    Molly Beck, jsonline.com, 14 Oct. 2025
  • These teen boys were blackmailed online.
    Nancy Cutler, USA Today, 20 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Another passenger squeezed her way up the aisle to try to make a tight connection.
    Nathan Diller, USA Today, 9 Nov. 2025
  • De’Von Achane took the handoff, squeezed through the hole, blasted past a diving defender at midfield and outraced the rest of the Bills’ defense to the end zone.
    Steve Gorten, Miami Herald, 9 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • He was extradited to Pennsylvania for questioning and when he was compelled to testify before a grand jury, Schrader invoked his Fifth Amendment right when asked about Carol Ann Dougherty's murder.
    Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Parks' arrest, however, compelled her to want to do more.
    Time, Time, 6 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • These were gangsters, so they weren’t obliged to couch this any way but direct.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Shaw-naé pushed for an in-person appointment, and the doctor obliged.
    Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 5 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Detectives even allegedly coerced Rosie into signing a document implicating Frank Jordano and his father, Iorlando Jordano.
    Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 2 Nov. 2025
  • This is the real danger for the NBA—players who get coerced into trying to rig games.
    Scott Soshnick, Sportico.com, 28 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The piece required the entire radius of Hsieh’s life to be constrained by the clock.
    Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Oral arguments, typically constrained to an hour (allocating 30 minutes for each side), will be expanded, underscoring the gravity and complexity of the case.
    Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 5 Nov. 2025
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