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thimblerig

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noun

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Verb
  • These are distinctions with meaningful differences: Smartphones are full-on computers in the pocket, tempting kids with nonstop streams of posts and videos and music and so much more, including instant access to AI bots that make cheating that much easier.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Broner reportedly is said to have cheated a current NBA All-Star out of $1.5 million and a former player out of $5 million in the games.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • These characters are fluent in three-card monte rap, no cards required.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Smith, according to law enforcement, was basically playing three-card monte with wire transfers and bogus bank statements to help cover his high times and high-risk investments.
    Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 8 June 2024
Verb
  • But skyrocketing home prices and stubbornly high mortgage rates in the past few years have squeezed many buyers to the sidelines of the market, raising concerns that this year will see a nationwide drop in sales even during the spring homebuying season.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 22 Mar. 2025
  • This 2019 retread attempts to squeeze that same emotional response out of viewers, simply by recreating every frame through photorealistic CGI.
    Staff Author, EW.com, 22 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Our society is a pyramid scheme, with the young supporting the old.
    Emma Green, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
  • There’s a whole pyramid scheme of sorts, and there’s all these other parts of the book that didn’t fit into this story.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 9 Sep. 2024
Verb
  • Those commercial jobs grew scarce because of the consolidation of ad agencies and the rise of marketing content plucked from social media.
    Steven Kurutz, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Whether picked from your garden or plucked from the farmer’s market, fresh asparagus is one of the surest signs of spring.
    Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • In October, Schiff, who built her reputation as an expert in blue-chip contemporary art, admitted to defrauding clients of at least $6.4 million through a series of deceptive transactions that prosecutors have likened to a Ponzi scheme.
    Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Elon Musk was right — Social Security is a Ponzi scheme.
    Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 12 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The brand sponsors hustling to join the crew hope the ride is just getting started.
    Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 20 Mar. 2025
  • In 2023, his final year with the Boston Red Sox, manager Alex Cora benched him twice, the first time in June for a failure to hustle on the base paths, and then again in August allegedly for showing up late to the ballpark.
    William Lambers, Newsweek, 8 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • In 2018, Forbes cited a study from Denmark that determined that people who regularly play racket sports could extend their lives.
    Chantz Martin, Fox News, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Andreeva took a 1-0 lead in the third with a too-strong passing shot that Sabalenka, a 26-year-old from Belarus, could barely even get her racket on.
    Adam Zagoria, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
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“Thimblerig.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thimblerig. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.

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