three-card montes

Definition of three-card montesnext
plural of three-card monte

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Noun
  • Federal investigators in Guam believed the devices held evidence that would help prove individuals handling the island’s Covid unemployment assistance program were part of a plot to steal funds.
    Thomas Brewster, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • With an undeletable presence embedded in the firmware of more than 600 million enterprise devices, Absolute delivers persistent visibility, control, and auto-repair capabilities that operate even when systems fail.
    CBS News, CBS News, 22 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Segun and Monica came up together in the DEI rackets.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 21 Jan. 2026
  • His interpretation of Baccarat’s Zenith chandelier is to be sold as a one-off art piece, complete with its scaffolding crate decorated with old keyboards, sunglasses and badminton rackets.
    Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 14 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • And making and swapping jigs for every shape and size to reproduce items over and over gets really old, really fast.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Underneath this Adam Sandler comedy’s goofy jigs and fart jokes is a compilation of emotional horrors as potent as any jump scare.
    The Atlantic Culture Desk, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2025
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“Three-card montes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/three-card%20montes. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.

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