How to Use rigged in a Sentence

rigged

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• Johnson’s Trump pokes fun at Trump’s rigged election claims, too.
  — Anne McCarthy, Variety, 19 May 2024
• But when in doubt—when nothing else is drawing a strike—fire out a wacky rigged Senko, work it back painfully slow, and hang on.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
• WildEyes are pre-rigged at the factory, where bodies are molded around lead heads.
  — Pete M. Anderson, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
• This was a rigged trial by a conflicted judge who was corrupt.
  — Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 31 May 2024
• The helmer has set out to shock and surprise, but the twists instead just feel rigged to reaffirm his own views of toxic masculinity.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 18 Feb. 2023
• In a world in which the deck is generally stacked against people like him, a rigged game he wasn’t destined to win, somehow Swagg Man made it.
  — Marc Wortman, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2023
• Despite his daily protests of a rigged trial, the jury found the former president guilty of 34 felony counts.
  — Letters To The Editor, Orange County Register, 10 June 2024
• In Smith’s hands, images of justice and safety warp into a carnival of faceless judges and rigged games.
  — Allison Noelle Conner, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2023
• This flexible finger sleeve has a rigged tip that gently massages your clit, nipples, and erogenous zones like none other.
  — Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 3 Mar. 2024
• In 2019, prosecutors said Stadler knew about the manipulation of diesel engines but failed to prevent the sale of hundreds of thousands of cars with rigged software.
  — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 27 June 2023
• Putin is certain to win, given a rigged electoral system in which anti-regime opposition figures have been jailed or forced to flee the country to avoid arrest.
  — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
• The motor and brightwork—the chrome trim and accent pieces—are positioned and then removed, so that electrical, hydraulic and mechanical pre-rigged lines can be added.
  — Tony Esposito, Robb Report, 3 Apr. 2023
• Volkov said the election day actions won't stop the Kremlin producing a rigged result, but will undercut its claims there is near universal support for Putin.
  — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 15 Mar. 2024
• Imagine a rigged game of 20 questions, where rather than starting with a particular object in mind, the answerer invents an excuse to say no to each question.
  — WIRED, 29 Oct. 2023
• Bad Genius is a high-stakes, high-octane thriller about a diverse group of students who team up to fight a system of injustice and inequity and take down the rigged academic institutions around them.
  — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 30 July 2024
• Those concerns are amplified by President Donald Trump repeating false claims that voting by mail will lead to a rigged and corrupt election.
  — Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 18 Aug. 2020
• Trump began the event by refusing to walk back his assertion that President Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election was the result of a rigged voting process.
  — Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 May 2023
• Roaring Kitty turned GameStop into a rallying cry against a rigged financial system.
  — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023
• That almost guarantees the case will continue to be part of his tale of grievance, persecution and a rigged system arrayed against him – and, by extension, against his supporters.
  — Donald Nieman, The Conversation, 31 May 2024
• Experts note voter fraud is incredibly rare, but President Donald Trump continues to repeat false claims that ballots cast in the mail will lead to a rigged or corrupt election.
  — Clara Hendrickson, Detroit Free Press, 11 Aug. 2021
• At the time, the regulatory agency was reeling from payola scandals, involving bribes paid to disc jockeys in exchange for promotion of certain records, and rigged quiz shows.
  — Adam Bernstein, Washington Post, 6 May 2023
• But a rigged contest marks the death of democracy and renders all the other essential pillars irrelevant, because the people no longer have a meaningful say over who governs.
  — Brian Klaas, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2024
• If Biden remains silent, then Trump's claims of a rigged justice system – almost certain to ramp up heading into 2024 – would go unchallenged by the likely Democratic standard-bearer.
  — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2023
• Rupert Stadler admitted wrongdoing and regret for his failure to keep rigged cars off the market even after the scandal had become public knowledge, the dpa news agency reported.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2023
• In 2009, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad became president via a rigged election, sparking the Green Movement, a middle-class revolt calling for clean elections.
  — Eric Edelman, Foreign Affairs, 2 Jan. 2023
• Fox News still faces another defamation suit by another voting machine maker, Smartmatic Corp., which is seeking $2.7 billion in damages over claims of rigged voting.
  — Anthony Lin, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2023
• Those included unfounded claims that Dominion was a key player in a rigged election by manipulating vote counts and suggestions that it was owned and controlled by the Venezuelan government.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2023
• The former head of Volkswagen’s luxury division admitted wrongdoing and regret for his failure to keep rigged cars off the market even after the scandal had become public knowledge.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2023
• In 2009, when mass demonstrations broke out in Iran over a rigged election, protesters used social media to break the information stranglehold of the country’s authoritarian rulers.
  — Steven Lee Myers, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2023
• Courts have repeatedly rejected claims of fraudulent or rigged elections.
  — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 23 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Nov 2024