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Enter Email Sign Up Related: What Harry Sinden thinks of these record-setting Bruins, and other thoughts Entering weekend play, the Panthers, Islanders, and Penguins remained in a spirited game of three-card monte (no relation to the Bruins coach) to sort out the two wild-card spots in the East.
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Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Apr. 2023
With this certificate, the shell company – whose sole purpose is to hold and hide assets – becomes one of a series of Russian dolls, each fit snugly into the next, creating a type of three-card monte in which the taxing authorities can never find assets nor owners.
—Beverly Moran, The Conversation, 5 Oct. 2021
The game is three-card monte.
—Robert Pearl, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
Determining responsibility for hiring underage workers, like determining responsibility for anything else that affects low-wage workers, is a game of three-card monte.
—Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2023
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Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Apr. 2023
With this certificate, the shell company – whose sole purpose is to hold and hide assets – becomes one of a series of Russian dolls, each fit snugly into the next, creating a type of three-card monte in which the taxing authorities can never find assets nor owners.
—Beverly Moran, The Conversation, 5 Oct. 2021
The game is three-card monte.
—Robert Pearl, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
Determining responsibility for hiring underage workers, like determining responsibility for anything else that affects low-wage workers, is a game of three-card monte.
—Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2023
See all Example Sentences for three-card monte
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Everything that happened was on the German’s racket and this time there were none of the passive moments that tend to derail the 27-year-old's assault on the majors.Tim Ellis, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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The screen then switched to footage of his son running across a tennis court with a racket in hand and watching from the sidelines with his mom.Kirsty Hatcher, People.com, 10 Oct. 2024
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Our society is a pyramid scheme, with the young supporting the old.Emma Green, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
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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
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Similarly to how no one advised investors to avoid stocks after Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, the usage of crypto to perpetrate scams and frauds doesn’t mean everyone should shun crypto.Laura Shin, TIME, 29 Oct. 2024
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One is the Ponzo illusion (not to be confused with a Ponzi scheme, which is a financial illusion).Phil Plait, Scientific American, 18 Oct. 2024
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Their wide profile also produces more flash and wobble than a diamond jig when seen from a distance.Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 17 Oct. 2024
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Diamond jigs were originally intended to be dropped straight down from a boat and jigged vertically.Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 17 Oct. 2024
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The finale ended on a cliffhanger, with Jakes cutting off his dreadlocks and blowing dodge with a cool $9 million in his pocket.Amber Dowling, TVLine, 28 Oct. 2024
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Combat, a rare low point of the original, returns in a newly scrappy guise: Each swing, dodge, and pull of the trigger is a moment of high-octane drama in itself.Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2024
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Not according to Hinch and Our Man Petzold, who reports the strategy is part of the Tigers’ plan to maximize the effectiveness of their opener/bulk-relief stratagem.Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 23 Sep. 2024
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Among the stratagems employed by PBMs to boost profits, the FTC says, is steering health plans and patients to their own affiliated pharmacy chains.Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2024
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Tracking your device Try to locate your phone with the find my device feature.Kelvin Chan, The Denver Post, 9 Nov. 2024
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Many turn to their devices when bored or stressed, much like an adult pacifier.Discover Magazine, Discover Magazine, 7 Nov. 2024
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The stunning corruption scheme finally came to an end in September 2013, when authorities tricked his NCIS mole into thinking the most serious investigations had been closed and then invited Francis to San Diego for a meeting with Navy officials.Alex Riggins, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
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In the last few days, the intelligence agencies have issued further public notifications that—presumably as part of the same scheme—Russia was behind bogus videos falsely depicting someone in Pennsylvania ripping up ballots and Haitians illegally voting in Georgia.The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Three-card monte.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/three-card%20monte. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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