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Last month, Gaines’ pecuniary gains were at the center of an 80-minute episode of the investigative sports podcast, Pablo Torre Finds Out, which cast her as a profiteer posing as a crusader for women.—
Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 23 Dec. 2025
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Maintaining the 'European path to peace/victory' only enriches war profiteers and neglects both sides' requests for security.—
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Good afternoon and welcome to Con Con, the convention for swindlers, mountebanks, and the people who love them.—
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But he's been a swindler his entire life.—
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If, on the other hand, a lower threshold is used—and many, including Kramnik and other top players, say this is necessary for cleaning up chess—some non-cheaters are likely to be caught in the net, with potentially dire consequences for their careers, reputations, and mental health.—
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While admitted cheaters were offered a pathway back into the seven-year program, some students say they were swept up in the scandal and wrongly accused in a flawed investigation.—
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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.—
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Both offer blistering acceleration and sharper handling than the standard model.—
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Others might feel the author cheats here, leaving it up to the reader to decide.—
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The movie follows a group of petty cheats, liars and drunks who are duped by nefarious opportunists who visit their crumbling town.—
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But my collection intentionally ignored the fraudulent exploits of billionaire heirs, tax dodgers and corporate magnates — defense contracts, government lobbying, bank accounts in Switzerland, shell companies in Panama, citizenship of Antigua and political asylum in London.—
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Denise Rich, a Democratic donor, gave four hundred and fifty thousand dollars to his Presidential-library foundation, and Clinton, on his final day in office, pardoned her ex-husband, Marc Rich, a tax dodger and a sanctions evader who’d fled to Switzerland.—
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Neither would have agreed to portray a skinny ping pong hustler with a surly disposition and bad complexion.—
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The actor gained acclaim for his role as a fast-talking hustler in Barry Levinson’s coming-of-age comedy Diner.—
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Ciri, unbeknowest to her surrogate ma and pa, is free of her Nilfgaardian captors and on the run with a band of adolescent ruffians, and perhaps figuring out how to take care of herself.—
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When both young people meet their end the Baron saves Christina by putting Hans’ brain in Christina’s body, uniting their blurred identities in a joint thirst for revenge, creating a Gothic avenger who hunts down the aristocratic ruffians who ruined their happiness.—
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“Gouger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gouger. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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