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As a result, profiteers are searching for and extracting gold under worsening humanitarian and environmental conditions.—
SASHA LEZHNEV,
Foreign Affairs,
19 May 2025 -
Amid the uproar, L.A.’s Department of Recreation and Parks introduced a pilot program to curb the profiteers.—
Ryan Fonseca,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Mar. 2025
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The Hall of Fame, many argue, is already full of bad actors, cheaters and racists.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
14 May 2025
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The League of Legends maker’s anti-cheat director spoke with TechCrunch about using a tool called Vanguard, which sits deep inside a Windows operating system to determine if any cheaters have installed code or tampered with a gamer’s computer.—
Thomas Brewster,
Forbes.com,
6 May 2025
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Yet as Russian war atrocities have become more evident, and Ukraine’s need for heavy armor has increased, the lines have grown blurrier and the rhetoric sharper.—
David E. Sanger,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2022
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Both offer blistering acceleration and sharper handling than the standard model.—
Eric Stafford,
Car and Driver,
19 Feb. 2021
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There will always be bugs, exploits, cheats or simply overpowered options to reduce the challenge in any game.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
8 May 2025
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But a rolling pin with numeric markers provides an easy cheat when measuring out the length or diameter of doughs.—
Lauren Joseph,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
11 Apr. 2025
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Try, try again Speaking of classes, the eight options here tend to fall into the usual archetypes for this kind of action-adventure game: the tank, the mage, the defensive specialist, the dextrous dodger, etc.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
28 May 2025
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The layoffs of roughly 7,000 Internal Revenue Service probationary workers beginning this week probably mean the end of the agency’s plan to go after high-wealth tax dodgers and could spell disaster for revenue collection, experts say.—
Fatima Hussein,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Feb. 2025
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Bookkeeper side hustlers must have accounting knowledge to manage financial records usually for small businesses. 15.—
Bryan Robinson,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2025
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Think of snark as a Better Business Bureau for the untamable world of influencing – a form of accountability that brings attention to the scammers and hustlers.—
Jess Rauchberg,
The Conversation,
30 Apr. 2025
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Friends and neighbors worried that these rumors could attract dangerous young ruffians who might harm them and steal the money.—
Mara Bovsun,
New York Daily News,
15 Dec. 2024
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Troy Stecher is a puck-mover with some two-way ability but is not considered a ruffian in the corners and in front of the net.—
Allan Mitchell,
The Athletic,
9 Aug. 2024
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Their reckless, soft-on-crime policies emboldened criminals and thugs; wreaked havoc on the sanctity of our homes, businesses, and public spaces; instilled fear; and jeopardized public trust.—
Jenna deJong,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 May 2025
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That theft is believed to have led to the brazen kidnapping in suburban Connecticut of the parents of one of Lam’s alleged co-conspirators by a crew of thugs from Florida who prosecutors say planned to hold the parents for ransom from their newly rich son.—
Dan Mangan,
CNBC,
15 May 2025
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“Gouger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gouger. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.
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