as in to cheat
to rob by the use of trickery or threats
had the feeling that I had just been thimblerigged by the sweetest-looking old lady
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as in three-card monte
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Verb
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Mark Darcy, however... While Daniel may have been able to cheat death, Mark, sadly, was not.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
12 Feb. 2025 -
He’s chosen to blatantly cheat and put millions of Americans’ lives at risk in an effort to hold on to power.—
Rebecca Schneid,
TIME,
8 Feb. 2025
Noun
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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
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Or can one side be played as a sucker during a game of three-card monte on the sidewalk outside the dingy bus terminal?—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
11 Feb. 2024
Verb
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These are dunked in grapefruit ponzu or spicy kimchi dressing or simply squeezed with lemon.—
John Metcalfe,
The Mercury News,
14 Feb. 2025
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It’s further squeezed by competition from others in the space, including Etsy, Michael’s and Hobby Lobby, as well as big-box and online retailers such as Amazon and Walmart.—
Caroline Petrow-Cohen,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Feb. 2025
Noun
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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
Verb
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The next year, White plucked Jennifer Coolidge and Jon Gries from the season 1 cast and transported them to Sicily.—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
31 Jan. 2025
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Pickens was a healthy scratch down the stretch, losing playing time to Jonathan Ford, who was plucked off the Packers’ practice squad.—
Kevin Fishbain,
The Athletic,
25 Jan. 2025
Noun
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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
Verb
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Rubio hustled over, met with Waltz, and hammered out the outlines for a response to Petro.—
Marc Caputo,
Axios,
28 Jan. 2025
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The Eagles grounds crew had to hustle to clear snow off the hash marks, sidelines and numbers on the field during stoppages in play for the remainder of the game.—
Kevin Dotson,
CNN,
19 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Trump's latest self-enrichment racket has been to sue the media.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
5 Feb. 2025
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This [racket and strings pairing] is definitely the combination for the foreseeable feature.—
Caroline Tien,
SELF,
29 Jan. 2025
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“Thimblerig.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thimblerig. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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