as in to cheat
to rob by the use of trickery or threats
had the feeling that I had just been thimblerigged by the sweetest-looking old lady
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as in three-card monte
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Verb
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Educational institutions signed contracts with AI detection companies such as GPTZero, ZeroGPT and Turnitin to deter students from cheating and adopted AI policies.—
Liz Shulman,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Feb. 2026 -
Meanwhile, our friends to the North seem to be in need of a timeout after cheating allegations.—
John Cherwa,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The Moore administration has chosen the opposite approach, doubling down on spending while shuffling money around in a game of three-card monte.—
J.B. Jennings,
Baltimore Sun,
5 Feb. 2026
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But what Booth desperately wants is for Linc to teach him the art of three-card monte, and to work with him on the street.—
Jim Higgins,
jsonline.com,
15 July 2025
Verb
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But, squeezed by the cost of things from rent to beef, others are shaking up their habit.—
Matt Sedensky,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Feb. 2026
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Ag is being squeezed by foreign competition, rising costs, and weak leadership in Austin.—
Eleanor Dearman,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
14 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Traffickers charge high fees and force victims to recruit friends and family in exchange for improved conditions, furthering a pyramid scheme model, Interpol said.—
Ope Adetayo,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Jan. 2026
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This included a new pyramid scheme, so to speak, that flipped the longstanding traditional food pyramid upside down, point downwards— seemingly to make a new point.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
19 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Pet vacuums, for example, have bristles and brush rolls that pluck and pull hair up from carpets.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
18 Feb. 2026
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The Angel Hold Hair Styling Cream gives expensive-looking waves and smooth, frizz-free hair that looks like you just got plucked up from a Greek vacation.—
Reece Andavolgyi,
InStyle,
17 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Disgraced ex-San Antonio financial adviser Brooklynn Chandler Willy, accused of getting clients to invest in a massive Ponzi scheme, is negotiating a plea agreement in her two criminal cases to avoid a federal trial later this year.—
Patrick Danner,
San Antonio Express-News,
30 Jan. 2026
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Occupy Wall Street–inflected politics informed its plot, which follows a bunch of workers at the titular tower banding together to rob a Wall Street billionaire, played by Alan Alda, who burned their pensions in a Ponzi scheme.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
30 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Yet the Bulls haven’t showed much urgency in trying to hustle either player back into the rotation until after this weekend’s hiatus.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Feb. 2026
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His attacker, the man in black, was hustled off the stage.—
Anderson Cooper,
CBS News,
9 Feb. 2026
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Who Created Vegas Poker chronicles the life of Binion, who presided over an illicit Dallas gambling racket in the 1930s.—
Uwa Ede-Osifo,
Dallas Morning News,
11 Feb. 2026
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Dealing with the hectoring racket of New York fans may well have prepared him to withstand the noise of the Super Bowl.—
Sally Jenkins,
The Atlantic,
9 Feb. 2026
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“Thimblerig.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thimblerig. Accessed 20 Feb. 2026.
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