THREE-CARD MONTE Synonyms: 39 Similar Words

three-card monte

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Recent Examples of three-card monte These characters are fluent in three-card monte rap, no cards required. — 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

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Noun

The vanishing of any craft is a tragedy to all who prefer the existence of a thing to its opposite, but restorative art represents more than just a niche domain of aesthetic achievement or a macabre postmortem racket.

— John Semley, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026
Fujimori centered her campaign around promises to improve security in Peru, where extortion rackets have become a significant problem.

— Franklin Briceño, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2026

Definition of racket

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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.

— John Otis, NPR, 21 June 2026
Attention online—which is to say, the modern entertainment industry at large—can look a bit like a pyramid scheme, with each lower layer trying to siphon a segment of audience away from the more famous one above.

— Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 22 Apr. 2026

Definition of pyramid scheme

Noun

Jason Cloth — who has producer credits on Babylon, Joker, Longlegs, and House of Gucci — was arrested in Chicago for allegedly running a $100 million Ponzi scheme.

— Bethy Squires, Vulture, 29 July 2026
Jason Cloth, a film producer with dozens of credits including Joker, Longlegs and Babylon, is facing numerous federal fraud charges and decades in prison in connection with a Ponzi scheme that bilked investors of more than $100 million.

— Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 29 July 2026

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By publishing interface dimensions for custom jigs and providing a software SDK, Morpho allows users and partners to design their own fixtures, create custom workflows, and extend the machine for new applications.

— Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 20 July 2026
Upsize your jig trailers, go with a larger worm on your Texas rig, or tie on a full-size topwater plug.

— David A. Brown, Outdoor Life, 1 July 2026

Definition of jig

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Instead of communicating with the other operator to decide who will make the dodge, Starlink satellites automatically avoid other objects — both space debris fragments or operational satellites — whenever there is a conjunction alert.

— Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 15 July 2026
But using DMs sent by trolls to minimize the on-court treatment of the league’s biggest star is a dodge.

— Dan Zaksheske OutKick, FOXNews.com, 15 July 2026

Definition of dodge

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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.

— Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
Through Elizabeth’s rise from servant to visionary who resisted Henry VIII’s break with the Roman Catholic Church to gain a divorce, Brown explores historical women’s stratagems for self-determination.

— Monitor reviewers, Christian Science Monitor, 17 Apr. 2026

Definition of stratagem

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The ban came after a series of high-profile scooter deaths and an alarming number of devices strewn willy-nilly in neighborhoods across the city.

— Shaddi Abusaid, AJC.com, 27 July 2026
The product, widely used in electronic devices such as laptops and smartphones, also stores the data that AI models need.

— Yue Wang, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026

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Jewelry giant Pandora is supporting the 20th-anniversary gala at Danish Royal Opera, as well as the New Talent program, providing jewelry for Taus and Anne-Sofie Madsen, who are about to graduate from the scheme.

— Bella Webb, Vogue, 31 July 2026
Whether by virtue of personnel, schemes or play-calling, the team that had finished in the top six in NFL scoring the previous six seasons — including leading the league twice — has finished 15th, 15th and 21st the last three years.

— Vahe Gregorian July 31, Kansas City Star, 31 July 2026

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