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Recent Examples of profiteer
The contractor, Zachary Young, was included in a November 2021 segment on war profiteers charging high prices to assist people in fleeing Afghanistan after the U.S. exited.
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Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2024
Expect the same slick ads that neglect to mention dangers in order to get our youth hooked as a key long-term strategy for profiteers.
—Bruce Grant, Orlando Sentinel, 25 July 2024
The rule is meant to insure that cultural property remains intact and accessible, rather than being hoarded away or sold off by profiteers.
—Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
The Crooked Man was an 18th-century war profiteer named Jeremiah Witkins.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 1 July 2024
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Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2024
Expect the same slick ads that neglect to mention dangers in order to get our youth hooked as a key long-term strategy for profiteers.
—Bruce Grant, Orlando Sentinel, 25 July 2024
The rule is meant to insure that cultural property remains intact and accessible, rather than being hoarded away or sold off by profiteers.
—Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
The Crooked Man was an 18th-century war profiteer named Jeremiah Witkins.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 1 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for profiteer
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By neglecting to impose a time or monkey limit on the experiment, the infinite monkey theorem essentially contains its own cheat code.Alexander Nazaryan, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025
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Suarez felt like a cheat code in fantasy football that season.The Athletic UK Football Writers, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
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That changed after Remy Ma made a scathing social media post revealing Pap’s romance with Shields, accusing the rapper of being a serial cheater and being involved with multiple women.Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 16 Dec. 2024
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Doute soon became one of the show’s stars and main driver of plot lines, from her bid to prove her ex, Tom Sandoval, was a cheater, to her precarious employment at SUR and off and on friendships with costars Stassi Schroeder and Katie Maloney.Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 6 Dec. 2024
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In the nineteen-nineties, a half-dozen or so hustlers emerged from the rubble of the old system to exploit their proximity to Boris Yeltsin and his family to snatch up invaluable state properties––oil fields, mines, television stations––at knockoff prices.David Remnick, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2025
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Melvin Combs, a small-time hustler, was introduced to selling heroin when Lucas fronted him several kilos from his Golden Triangle connection.airmail.news, airmail.news, 16 Nov. 2024
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The proximate cause of the war crimes chronicled in Han’s novels is South Korea’s succession of authoritarian governments, their soldiers and police; on Jeju Island, these were joined by gangs of right-wing thugs.Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2025
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Yes, that is Canet playing the paragliding avenger, Franck, who’s trying to free his abducted pregnant wife, Léo (Stéphane Caillard), from a blackmailing thug.Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
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While the move aimed at keeping counterfeiters and tax dodgers on the back foot appears at odds with the growing popularity of cash-free transactions by consumers and businesses, central bank and finance ministry officials continue to flag the enduring importance of paper money.Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Asia, 3 July 2024
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Indictment details In the indictment, the department’s tax attorneys portrayed Rotta as a perennial tax dodger.Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 22 Mar. 2024
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“Profiteer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/profiteer. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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