as in switcheroo
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a selling method in which a customer is attracted by the advertisement of a low-priced product but then is encouraged to buy a more expensive one
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This one’s cheerfully grandiose title is, unsurprisingly, a bait and switch: These are sad songs, small in scope and size (none run past four minutes).
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Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 4 July 2024
It was passed because hundreds of thousands of people are duped into bait and switch contracts with variable rates.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 6 May 2024
This was the essential bait and switch of couples therapy.
—Leslie Jamison, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
But the annual budget bill process achieves new levels of absurdity because of both a bait and switch change to the constitution in 2010 and the fact that California is now a one-party state.
—Jon Coupal, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
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Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 4 July 2024
It was passed because hundreds of thousands of people are duped into bait and switch contracts with variable rates.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 6 May 2024
This was the essential bait and switch of couples therapy.
—Leslie Jamison, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
But the annual budget bill process achieves new levels of absurdity because of both a bait and switch change to the constitution in 2010 and the fact that California is now a one-party state.
—Jon Coupal, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
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Comcast’s over-the-air flagship will air around 50 regular-season games on Thursdays and post-NFL Sundays, a platform switcheroo that automatically expands the league’s reach by some 15.5 million households.Sportico Staff, Sportico.com, 23 Oct. 2024
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Neither one of them should be calling it now with all the uncertainty over the actual Dodgers playoff rotation, but this personality switcheroo is really throwing me off.Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2024
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The primary reason for the ratings turnaround were the two teams; the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees.Brad Adgate, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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The numbers represent a substantial turnaround from last year, when a record-low 9.11 million people on average watched the Texas Rangers win in five games over the Arizona Diamondbacks.Jamie Barton, CNN, 1 Nov. 2024
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Martinez might’ve wanted to distract from his flip-flop, or to court his party’s religious right base.Allison Mashell Mitchell / Made by History, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024
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Permanent daylight saving time has failed before The U.S. has had a flip-flopping relationship with seasonal time changes.Addy Bink, The Hill, 3 Nov. 2024
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In a turnabout this year, the Trump campaign has encouraged early and mail-in voting in 2024 to avoid the same scenario again.Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024
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However this next show came to be, the decision validates a long-manifest turnabout, which is that the muse of visionary dressing is now the man.Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2024
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Conclusion: Agency Portals as Fragile as Cobwebs Despite Biden’s renunciation of the Trump project, many guidance documents remain unburied.Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
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In 2010, the government imposed a $450 renunciation fee.Robert W. Wood, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
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Read More: How Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minister Pushed Through Asia’s First Cannabis Legalization Cannabis advocacy groups and businesses have voiced their opposition to the policy volte-face, staging rallies and threatening a legal challenge against the premier.Pathom Sangwongwanich / Bloomberg, TIME, 27 June 2024
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The policy volte-face is another blow to Thailand’s nascent cannabis industry after decriminalization was pitched as a way to boost agricultural income and wellness tourism.TIME, TIME, 10 May 2024
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Subscriptions like Billie cover this for you without a second thought.Sabina Wizemann, Good Housekeeping, 30 Nov. 2022
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In America, the allure of material comfort is accepted without a second thought.Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2022
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His letter demanding a retraction helps demonstrate the scale of support for Dorje Chang’s movement by wealthy true believers.Joseph Bien-Kahn, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2024
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Express Scripts has since sued over the report, calling for a retraction.Maya Goldman, Axios, 21 Oct. 2024
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“Bait and switch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bait%20and%20switch. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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