swindling 1 of 2

present participle of swindle

swindling

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noun

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Verb
  • Emotionally cheating may hurt more than physically cheating.
    Melina Khan, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The next global square date will take place on January 1, 2036, or 01/01/2036, which feels a bit like cheating since both versions yield 1012036 (1006 x 1006).
    Margherita Bassi, Popular Science, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • And what could be more legitimate of a cause for removing a governor of the nation's central bank—which is, among other things, the lender of last resort to the country's financial institutions—than the alleged defrauding of those very financial institutions?
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Her alleged defrauding of the Jackson Health Foundation, however, extended well beyond Miami, according to an indictment and other court records.
    Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 12 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Instead of hustling for one-day bookings, Patel engineered a system where one client often meant three to five events—maximizing return and loyalty.
    Sindhya Valloppillil, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Four astronauts returned to Earth after hustling to the International Space Station five months ago to relieve the stuck test pilots of Boeing’s Starliner.
    Jeremy Mikula, NBC news, 10 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • That assumes your startup is developing artificial intelligence tools for cat-skinning.
    Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • While many traditional inner-thigh exercises focus solely on squeezing motions, more effective adductor training also incorporates movements in multiple planes and challenges the muscles to work as stabilizers rather than just prime movers.
    Dana Santas, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The squeeze One way Californians cope with pricey housing is by squeezing more than the typical number of people into their living spaces.
    Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The first challenge is to create a visually appealing monkey bread, which many in America will recognize as a circular loaf composed of smaller balls that can be easily torn off, much like monkeys plucking nits from one another.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
  • When not plucking away at a keyboard, Madison teaches yoga and mountain bikes with her two Australian shepherds, Cholla and Poppy, through Missoula's Rattlesnake Wilderness.
    Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • There’s an art to the hand-cutting and chiseling of the tiles which has been passed down through generations.
    Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The type of manual mining Ojibwe perform to obtain pipestone, however, involves crawling into small caves and careful chiseling by hand.
    Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • These pretty pink jellyfish are carnivorous and have stinging tentacles that can reach up to 70 feet long.
    Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 25 Sep. 2025
  • On the other hand, Howard Stern had stinging comments today over Kimmel going dark, and joined the groundswell of subscribers cancelling Disney+.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 22 Sep. 2025
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“Swindling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swindling. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.

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