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Recent Examples of three-card monte
Booth, a street hustler, wants Lincoln to teach him three-card monte, a game Lincoln mastered before giving it up for a respectable, if demoralizing, job.
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Imani Perry Janina Edwards Krish Seenivasan Devin Murphy, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
But these dynamics are uncertain in a play that treats identity like a game of three-card monte.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2024
Enter Email Sign Up Related: What Harry Sinden thinks of these record-setting Bruins, and other thoughts Entering weekend play, the Panthers, Islanders, and Penguins remained in a spirited game of three-card monte (no relation to the Bruins coach) to sort out the two wild-card spots in the East.
—Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Apr. 2023
With this certificate, the shell company – whose sole purpose is to hold and hide assets – becomes one of a series of Russian dolls, each fit snugly into the next, creating a type of three-card monte in which the taxing authorities can never find assets nor owners.
—Beverly Moran, The Conversation, 5 Oct. 2021
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Imani Perry Janina Edwards Krish Seenivasan Devin Murphy, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
But these dynamics are uncertain in a play that treats identity like a game of three-card monte.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2024
Enter Email Sign Up Related: What Harry Sinden thinks of these record-setting Bruins, and other thoughts Entering weekend play, the Panthers, Islanders, and Penguins remained in a spirited game of three-card monte (no relation to the Bruins coach) to sort out the two wild-card spots in the East.
—Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Apr. 2023
With this certificate, the shell company – whose sole purpose is to hold and hide assets – becomes one of a series of Russian dolls, each fit snugly into the next, creating a type of three-card monte in which the taxing authorities can never find assets nor owners.
—Beverly Moran, The Conversation, 5 Oct. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for three-card monte
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Among the era’s ironies is that the winning number in one gambling racket was, for a time, produced honestly by the results of another.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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Seniors visited the Highland Park Community Center on Wednesday morning to hit the treadmill or swing pickleball rackets as library patrons next door signed up for study rooms, walked their tiny tots to the children’s reading area or cracked open newspapers.—
Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
31 July 2025
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These scammers lured their targets with various offers, from cryptocurrency investments to pyramid schemes, and operated mainly out of Southeast Asia.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
6 Aug. 2025
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Scams that often exploit financial literacy gaps and market scams, such as pyramid schemes, gifting circles or unregulated crypto programs, as opportunities for fast-track wealth.—
Alejandra Rojas,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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The Bernie Madoff scandal is considered the biggest Ponzi scheme in history.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes.com,
16 Aug. 2025
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Kevin Lamarque | Reuters Two men have been indicted in New York on federal criminal charges in connection with a water vending machine Ponzi scheme that allegedly swindled investors out of more than $200 million, the Department of Justice said Thursday.—
Dan Mangan,
CNBC,
14 Aug. 2025
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Mitchell struggled with Percocet, and after some stints in sub-par rehabs, figured out the jig.—
Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
30 May 2025
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Original price: $205 DeWalt's jig saw has an anti-slip comfort grip that makes controlling the saw easier.—
Christopher Murray
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FOXNews.com,
1 July 2025
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Blockchain can track trades, AI can determine dodges, and cloud systems can sync globally.—
Jules Herd,
Forbes.com,
13 May 2025
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With the clock slipping under 15 seconds, senior Keeley Block began a dodge against Maryland junior defender Neve O’Ferrall.—
Edward Lee,
Baltimore Sun,
11 May 2025
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For people like Soriano, however, the elections are about more than political stratagem and determining which family holds the most nominal power.—
Chad de Guzman,
Time,
13 May 2025
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The scene is straight out of a stratagem by Pier Paolo Pasolini (Bertolucci’s mentor), but Palud takes it literally without applying comparable ideological critique to the rest of her film.—
Armond White,
National Review,
28 Mar. 2025
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The port scar on her chest, left behind from the device that once flowed chemotherapy treatments into her body, proved especially tricky to conceal.—
Catherine Santino,
People.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Video and recording devices including Go Pros & Google glasses.—
Ed Masley,
AZCentral.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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From a scheme perspective, that would also fall on LaFleur.—
Evan Massey,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Aug. 2025
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So yes, before the green flag dropped Saturday, with the throwback paint scheme unchipped and pristine — that was the moment that everyone was waiting on.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
17 Aug. 2025
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“Three-card monte.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/three-card%20monte. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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