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Recent Examples of three-card monte
These characters are fluent in three-card monte rap, no cards required.
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Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Mar. 2025
Smith, according to law enforcement, was basically playing three-card monte with wire transfers and bogus bank statements to help cover his high times and high-risk investments.
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Neal Rubin,
Detroit Free Press,
8 June 2024
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?
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New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
11 Feb. 2024
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Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Mar. 2025
Smith, according to law enforcement, was basically playing three-card monte with wire transfers and bogus bank statements to help cover his high times and high-risk investments.
—
Neal Rubin,
Detroit Free Press,
8 June 2024
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.
—
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
See All Example Sentences for three-card monte
Recent Examples of Synonyms for three-card monte
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Dancers in tennis skirts twirled around with rackets while breaking to move plants and shovel dirt.
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The pong-sound of racket connecting to ball and hitting concrete.
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Among them was the founder of a major pyramid scheme that defrauded thousands of Colombians of their savings, as well as Alex Saab, a Colombian businessman with close ties to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who was later extradited to the United States on money-laundering charges.
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Parenting was the ultimate pyramid scheme.
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Other agencies and investigations Previous reporting by the Washington Post revealed that Epstein had been named in an investigation in the 1990s into Towers Financial, a notorious Ponzi scheme, but was never charged.
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Related Stories Horwitz is serving a 20-year sentence over what federal prosecutors described as a $650 million Ponzi scheme.
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But a freestyler’s sombrero flick starts with the ball on the floor and requires two touches with the same foot to get it up and over your head, including a little jig in between.
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Still, isn’t the jig up as soon as a conversation moves from an app to an in-person meeting?
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After missing a penalty in the game’s third minute, Messi rebounded with a strike from 15 yards away in the 38th minute and an unreal dodge of multiple Austrian defenders for a second goal in the fifth minute of second-half stoppage time.
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Maybe jump the fence over to his left and get out of dodge.
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Edward Bernays might have urged consultation with a shrink like his uncle, Dr. Freud, to help communicate their conflicting stratagems.
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Photograph by Glen Wilson / Lionsgate Fuqua’s low-key approach is both a natural expression of his personality and a shrewd stratagem to reassure people around him that everything is under control.
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Those who rely on custom mobility devices still have to fly commercial or find another way to get to the games, and risk damage to their wheelchairs in the process.
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These devices are a direct answer to that problem.
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Prosecutors allege Eidleh, along with other members of the scheme, solicited and received bribes and kickbacks from individuals and companies seeking approval to operate fraudulent Federal Child Nutrition Program sites.
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This has fueled the ‘spend not sell’ movement, in which builders seek to familiarize users with earning and spending their bitcoin rather than trading and falling for get-rich-quick schemes.
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“Three-card monte.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/three-card%20monte. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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