as in to defraud
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The defendants were accused of running sham hospice care facilities that defrauded Medicare by using people without terminal illnesses as beneficiaries, according to the California Justice Department.—
Rena Rowe,
The Washington Examiner,
2 Apr. 2026 -
The LinkedIn post that McCormick allegedly responded to with an emoji touted a court verdict that could cost Musk upwards of $2 billion for defrauding Twitter investors.—
Lora Kolodny,
CNBC,
30 Mar. 2026
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And although the documentary doesn’t completely shortchange the World Cup games themselves, more than an hour is just the lead-up.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
17 Mar. 2026
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Something that reflects how Dan Fogelman’s show is no longer behaving like a straightforward postapocalypse story and how this season’s narrative slips and slides through the timeline, increasingly shortchanging the series creator’s innate preference for sincerity.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
16 Mar. 2026
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“Clean (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clean%20%28out%29. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.
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