How to Use fast/quick buck in a Sentence
fast/quick buck
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Looks like ‘Barbie’ is bending to Beijing to make a quick buck.
—Tori Otten, The New Republic, 7 July 2023
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Stock trading is often focused on the short term, as traders aim to make a quick buck over a few months or even a few hours.
—Dallas News, 22 Jan. 2023
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News trucks lined the streets and enterprising citizens tried to make a fast buck.
—Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 21 Mar. 2023
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Inflation and the cost of living are top of mind these days—for everyone from investors to fast buck artists.
—Maria Abreu, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
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Meanwhile, a theme park owner who lives nearby also learns about the eerie existence and tries to make a quick buck off of it.
—Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 16 Feb. 2023
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Probably could have made a quick buck selling these 500 million years ago.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 10 Aug. 2023
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Broome acknowledged that the NFT sector today is like the dot-com boom of the late 1990s — rife with speculators trying to make a fast buck.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 17 Aug. 2022
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Some are more interested in making a quick buck than in giving you a safe product.
—Discover Magazine, 3 Apr. 2024
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The town itself is a classic of the genre, full of scheming locals, buried secrets and nefarious elites trying to make a quick buck.
—David Faris, theweek, 14 Jan. 2024
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Synthetic content is flooding search engines and social media like a kind of gray goo, all in hopes of making a quick buck.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2024
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Choe stars as Isaac, an ex-convict who ropes his desperate cousin Danny (Yeun) into his shady ventures to make a quick buck.
—Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2023
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Some are wealthy Russians buying vehicles for themselves, or small-time entrepreneurs looking to resell cars for a quick buck.
—Jack Ewing, New York Times, 11 May 2023
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The wait time for certain models of Rolex watches has gone from one year roughly a decade ago to five years today, according to one expert, partly due to flippers that buy to make a quick buck.
—Carol Ryan, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022
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Are social media moguls Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg at fault for dialing up the world’s collective temperature just to earn a quick buck?
—Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2023
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Both reward a focus on building meaningful value over making a quick buck.
—Diane Brady, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
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Unfortunately, there will always be bad actors looking to make a quick buck at the expense of taxpayers.
—Chuck Grassley, National Review, 22 Dec. 2023
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Likewise, celebrities jumped at the chance to use their cachet to earn a quick buck, releasing their own lines of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), for example, or their own crypto coins.
—WIRED, 27 Sep. 2023
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For several reasons, Oregon’s benefits system was a less inviting target for thieves looking to make a quick buck.
—oregonlive, 14 Jan. 2023
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Some manufacturers are cranking out subpar Japanese knives to make a quick buck.
—Paul Kita, Men's Health, 9 Feb. 2023
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The pandemic—and ongoing economic turmoil in the country—has moved traditional sellers online and led to more people looking for ways to make a fast buck.
—Zuha Siddiqui, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2023
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Some enterprising business owners seized on the opportunity to make a quick buck, or even thousands, with rooms priced at many multiples of their usual high-season peak.
—Natasha Frost, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
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That means Doc Venture can indeed invite a bunch of bad guys over to his compound to make a quick buck off of his dad’s old inventions without being too worried about possible kidnapping, injury, or death.
—Mat Olson, Vulture, 19 July 2023
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And in today’s climate of economic uncertainty, cybercriminals are looking to sneak up on their prey, attack quickly, make a quick buck and move on.
—Dror Liwer, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2023
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Lee said a recent lull in the market has sifted out many speculators looking to make a quick buck, but long-term collectors and hobbyists remain heavily involved.
—Kim Bhasin, Bloomberg.com, 7 Dec. 2022
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And for consumers, one application with a core function brings together a diverse array of services such as calling a cab, investing money, or even making a quick buck.
—Edward Ongweso Jr., WIRED, 10 Sep. 2023
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Some businesses have jumped into the CBD industry to make a fast buck, selling low-quality items tainted with chemical additives.
—The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Apr. 2022
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The product became a phenomenon thanks to innovative design, canny marketing that took advantage of the burgeoning internet, and the tendency of consumers to look for ways to make a quick buck by reselling them on eBay.
—Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 July 2023
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Other websites are using A.I. to write news articles—often including errors—to make a quick buck from digital advertising.
—Peter Vanham, Fortune, 13 July 2023
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By disguising her name, Alcott could publish in less prestigious venues for a quick buck without worrying about tarnishing her literary reputation.
—Max Chapnick, The Conversation, 7 Dec. 2023
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