How to Use rigged in a Sentence

rigged

adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • But for a small segment of contenders, former President Donald Trump's false claims of a rigged 2020 election have remained an important campaign selling point heading into Tuesday's primary.
    Sarah Rankin and Ali Swenson, ajc, 17 June 2023
  • Nationally, President Donald Trump and other Republicans continue to repeat false claims about mail-in voting, arguing the process may lead to a rigged or corrupt election.
    Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 28 Aug. 2020
  • Republicans said Trump getting charged while prosecutors recommended not charging Biden is proof of a rigged justice system.
    Devlin Barrett, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2024

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