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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
Or can one side be played as a sucker during a game of three-card monte on the sidewalk outside the dingy bus terminal?
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 11 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
Or can one side be played as a sucker during a game of three-card monte on the sidewalk outside the dingy bus terminal?
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 11 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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Treatment centers, everyone knows, are a racket.—
Jennifer Wilson,
New Yorker,
28 Sep. 2025
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Playtomic Renews Partnership With Premier Padel Through 2026 Playtomic, a community of racket sport players and clubs, has renewed its collaboration with Premier Padel, the official professional padel tour, extending the partnership through the 2026 season.—
Sportico Staff,
Sportico.com,
26 Sep. 2025
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For the Klan, Clarke and Tyler settled on a good old-fashioned American pyramid scheme.—
Jody Mamone,
Hartford Courant,
15 Aug. 2025
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The Tuesday release highlighted an incident with Cambodian users urging people to enlist in a rent-a-scooter pyramid scheme with an initial text message generated by ChatGPT.—
Ashleigh Fields,
The Hill,
6 Aug. 2025
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What was once dismissed as a Ponzi scheme is now dressed up as the Lottery.—
Suzanne Blake,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Sep. 2025
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Just as a Ponzi scheme collapses without sufficient cash inflows from new investors, Ponzi finance collapses without sufficient price appreciation for the asset being financed.—
Hersh Shefrin,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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Different colors are used on the jigs to signify what size drill bit to use so the workers don’t have to squint at fractional numbers on the boat.—
Kristin Shaw,
Popular Science,
24 Sep. 2025
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Try for crappie with minnows or jigs five to 15 feet deep.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
16 Sep. 2025
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Overshooting a dodge or whiffing a swing usually leads to contact damage, followed by an enemy attack, which will stun you for a few frames for them to reposition, causing even more contact damage as the foe decides to move through you.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
19 Sep. 2025
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Unlike many Souls-like games, Silksong doesn't have a spammable dodge button that offers the player brief invulnerability to almost every attack, regardless of location.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
11 Sep. 2025
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Night after night the stratagem was repeated successfully.—
Robert Easton,
Outdoor Life,
3 Sep. 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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Meanwhile, others confirmed the stream was working for them, suggesting the issue may be regional or device-specific.—
Amanda Castro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Sep. 2025
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In February, BestPlaces, a research firm specializing in quality of life and livability, released a report, conducted in partnership with Medtronic, a global manufacturer of medical devices and healthcare technology.—
Stacey Leasca,
Travel + Leisure,
24 Sep. 2025
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Genians, which uncovered the fake ID scheme, said this latest case underscores just how much generative AI has changed the game.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
27 Sep. 2025
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The crackdown is part of a broader scheme.—
Lizz Winstead,
Time,
27 Sep. 2025
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“Three-card monte.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/three-card%20monte. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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