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Amid the uproar, L.A.’s Department of Recreation and Parks introduced a pilot program to curb the profiteers.—
Ryan Fonseca,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Mar. 2025 -
Ye then called for Cohen to make amends with the Black community for being a profiteer of their trauma and pain, invoking the name of late Murder Inc.—
Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
13 Feb. 2025
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Alvarez is a good pitch cheater, a bad pitch blocker and has a good arm despite throwing out just 18% of base-stealers.—
Gene McCaffrey,
The Athletic,
11 Mar. 2025
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The United States tops the league table of countries with the most cheaters, with 21 percent of respondents admitting to having cheated on any past or present partner, according to 2021 findings by Statista.—
William Lambers,
Newsweek,
10 Mar. 2025
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Yet as Russian war atrocities have become more evident, and Ukraine’s need for heavy armor has increased, the lines have grown blurrier and the rhetoric sharper.—
David E. Sanger,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2022
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Both offer blistering acceleration and sharper handling than the standard model.—
Eric Stafford,
Car and Driver,
19 Feb. 2021
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The downside, of course, is the world now knows their cheat code.—
Mark Zeigler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Mar. 2025
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Technically, this is a cheat: 2018’s Liberation tried this too, but to middling effect.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
14 Mar. 2025
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In contrast, anonymous digital cash is a tax dodger’s dream.—
David G.W. Birch,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
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The layoffs of roughly 7,000 Internal Revenue Service probationary workers beginning this week probably mean the end of the agency’s plan to go after high-wealth tax dodgers and could spell disaster for revenue collection, experts say.—
Fatima Hussein,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Feb. 2025
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Glover furthered his success as Duffy in 1974's Chinatown and hustler James Coburn in 1975's Hard Times.—
Shania Russell,
EW.com,
30 Mar. 2025
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In fact, recent research from a TurboTax (Intuit) study shows that the majority of side hustlers earn less than $1,000 each month.—
Rachel Wells,
Forbes.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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Friends and neighbors worried that these rumors could attract dangerous young ruffians who might harm them and steal the money.—
Mara Bovsun,
New York Daily News,
15 Dec. 2024
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Troy Stecher is a puck-mover with some two-way ability but is not considered a ruffian in the corners and in front of the net.—
Allan Mitchell,
The Athletic,
9 Aug. 2024
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Jesse, understandably, has become more defensive about antisemitism since he was brutally attacked by thugs who singled him out for being Jewish.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Mar. 2025
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The hundreds of attacks being made by Houthi, the sinister mobsters and thugs based in Yemen, who are hated by the Yemeni people, all emanate from, and are created by, IRAN.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
18 Mar. 2025
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“Gouger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gouger. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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