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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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for three-card monte
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According to the Council on Foreign Relations, the Sinaloa Cartel’s international presence is unmatched by any other Mexican criminal group, with a diverse empire of extortion rackets, weapons trading, prostitution and oil theft alongside their drug business.—
Max Saltman,
CNN,
22 Feb. 2025
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Last week, Cristiano Ronaldo turned 40 years old—an age when most athletes have long hung up their cleats, sneakers, tennis rackets or boxing gloves.—
Kurt Badenhausen,
Sportico.com,
12 Feb. 2025
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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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Prosecutors argued and investigators testified that Natalie killed Michael to prevent her Ponzi scheme from being exposed at a bank meeting scheduled the day Michael fell ill.—
Doc Louallen,
ABC News,
14 Feb. 2025
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The Sun spoke with investors from Maryland and Pennsylvania, alleging a widespread, massive Ponzi scheme.—
Kate Cimini,
Baltimore Sun,
13 Feb. 2025
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Tiffany Haddish stopped by and did a jig posing with Julianne Hough, and the comedian at one point giddily ran up to photographers to see how her photos came out.—
Alyssa Goldberg,
USA TODAY,
15 Feb. 2025
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In the dance halls, Black and Irish musicians and dancers competed, helping complete the fusion of Irish jigs and African gioube (sacred and secular stepping dances) that went back to the 18th century and eventually evolved into tap dancing — a uniquely American dance form.—
Jay Mwamba,
New York Daily News,
1 Feb. 2025
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Because of the game being played on Monday instead of the weekend, the teams had an extra day to pack up, get out of dodge and head south to play the game as emergency officials scrambled to quench the infernos in the Los Angeles area.—
Ryan Gaydos,
Fox News,
14 Jan. 2025
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The developers have also added new skills related to the dodge roll, such as the ability to leave behind an illusory copy of your character to act as a decoy, which make the new mechanic feel essential to the modernized gameplay the sequel implements.—
Diego Argüello,
Rolling Stone,
6 Dec. 2024
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Its biting satire is complimented by engaging mechanics like the stratagems.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
28 Dec. 2024
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The competitors are in a trancelike state, building a stratagem.—
Maddie Connors,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Dec. 2024
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Bless dynamically allocates workloads based on device capabilities.—
Tyler Shepherd,
USA TODAY,
21 Feb. 2025
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The center charged medical device and training companies $649 for heads, $330 for a pair of feet and $1,400 for a whole body.—
Jon Schuppe,
NBC News,
21 Feb. 2025
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When Tony White left after the regular season for Florida State, Nebraska lost a defensive tactician and a coordinator who brought an effective scheme to the Blackshirts.—
Mitch Sherman,
The Athletic,
17 Feb. 2025
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What’s needed now are more flexible funding schemes and opportunities that will allow Latvian productions to be competitive on the global market.—
Marta Balaga,
Variety,
17 Feb. 2025
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