three-card monte

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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for three-card monte
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Noun
  • Flagg never picked up a racket but stopped by to help Nowitzki raise money for children dealing with illness, poverty, abuse and neglect.
    Christian Clark, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Commercial dishwashers also make quite the racket.
    Jeremy Lott, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • For the Klan, Clarke and Tyler settled on a good old-fashioned American pyramid scheme.
    Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 15 Aug. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • What was once dismissed as a Ponzi scheme is now dressed up as the Lottery.
    Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Somewhere Mary Colter — who lived long enough to see her masterpiece converted to office space — danced a jig.
    Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • At the time, Simpson looked confused before dancing a jig and sneaking off the stage.
    Ilana Kaplan, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • There's also knee slides, double jumps, and quick-dodges in all directions.
    Griff Griffin, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The former is what the first game had, and is more meant for short-range dashes and dodges.
    Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Night after night the stratagem was repeated successfully.
    Robert Easton, Outdoor Life, 3 Sep. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • The devices nearly saturated the ground, and boosted humidity in the grove by 20%, dampening fire spread, Zwierzchowski said.
    Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Verizon claimed that Section 222 of the Communications Act covers only call-location data, as opposed to device location data.
    Nate Anderson, ArsTechnica, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Roberts and Robinson, who federal prosecutors say conducted the scheme over the course of five years, between 2018 and 2023, allegedly stole $900,000 from the court system.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Just look at the offense — more weapons, better scheme, more support.
    Dianna Russini, New York Times, 13 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 17 Sep. 2025.

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