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Recent Examples of extort
Since then, the Club Shay Shay host and his legal team have vehemently denied the allegations and claimed the Jane Doe set up the entire situation with a plan to extort him for $50 million.
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Regina Cho, VIBE.com, 5 May 2025
The charges come after police said a victim reported that Fitzpatrick allegedly extorted them.
—Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA Today, 24 Apr. 2025
Abrego Garcia left his home in El Salvador in 2011 at the age of sixteen after a local gang extorted his family's business, threatened to rape and kill his sisters, and made repeated threats on his life, according to immigration court filings.
—Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 18 Apr. 2025
In Smith's case, an image of her was doctored to create explicit pictures and videos, with her face edited onto different, partly nude bodies, and then used to try to extort money from others.
—Nicole Valdes, CBS News, 1 May 2025
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Regina Cho, VIBE.com, 5 May 2025
The charges come after police said a victim reported that Fitzpatrick allegedly extorted them.
—Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA Today, 24 Apr. 2025
Abrego Garcia left his home in El Salvador in 2011 at the age of sixteen after a local gang extorted his family's business, threatened to rape and kill his sisters, and made repeated threats on his life, according to immigration court filings.
—Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 18 Apr. 2025
In Smith's case, an image of her was doctored to create explicit pictures and videos, with her face edited onto different, partly nude bodies, and then used to try to extort money from others.
—Nicole Valdes, CBS News, 1 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for extort
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The alleged kidnappers shocked the victim with electric wires, held him upside down from the top of a staircase, cut his leg with a saw and threatened to kill his family in a bid to coerce their Italian hostage to unlock his Bitcoin account, prosecutors said.—
Colin Mixson,
New York Daily News,
30 May 2025
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Swat is coerced into taking on the role or finally getting legal comeuppances for all of his misdeeds and ends up taking on solving the mystery of a series of disappearances plaguing Echo city.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
29 May 2025
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Martinez’s son squeezed the trigger five times, shooting Rivera to death and wounding two others, the detective wrote in the affidavit.—
Matthew Ormseth,
Los Angeles Times,
24 May 2025
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Umberto Rispoli squeezed between horses around the top of the stretch and then rode Journalism to a tremendous rally.—
Baltimore Sun staff,
Baltimore Sun,
24 May 2025
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But whereas the first generation of Chinese entrepreneurs grew up poor and were happy to wring a livelihood from cheap imitations, today’s tech graduates were spared the privations of their parents and yearn for something more meaningful.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
29 May 2025
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Gently squeeze out some of the excess water without wringing the suit, which can stretch it out and alter the shape.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
11 May 2025
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This odd mix should not work, but Soto pulls it off with a sure hand and precisely exacting storytelling.—
Murtada Elfadl,
Variety,
24 May 2025
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The criteria also requires at least 15 full looks that each meet an exacting level of execution. VIP Itinerary And A Strategic Hospitality Guest List Stockholm Fashion Week is not limited to runway shows.—
Bianca Salonga,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2025
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Whether an offensive will materialize in the coming weeks and months or prove capable of wresting any significant territory from the group remains to be seen.—
Paul Iddon,
Forbes.com,
3 May 2025
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The prospect of the DeSantis administration wresting more control over the HBCU plays into longstanding anxieties that the state could cut into some of the university’s signature programs — or even merge the school with FSU, an idea lawmakers contemplated in the 1960s.—
Kate Payne,
The Orlando Sentinel,
15 May 2025
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“Extort.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extort. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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