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as in shark
a dishonest person who uses clever means to cheat others out of something of value
those poolroom sharpies cleaned them out
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Noun
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One of them estimated the shark was about 10 feet long.—
Jillian Frankel,
People.com,
3 June 2025 -
The shark gnawed on his surfboard, but Heller was unharmed.—
Joe Edwards,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 June 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
Noun
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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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Hayakawa is a plaintive storyteller who refuses to indulge in emotional cheats of any kind, and would rather a scene be impenetrably oblique than overexplain its purpose.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
19 May 2025
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Her most notable reporting has been about taxes, including exposing billionaire tax cheats and writing cover stories on tax shelters (both corporate and individual), tax evasion, tax informants, tax administration, tax policy and legitimate tax planning.—
Emma Whitford,
Forbes.com,
28 Apr. 2025
Noun
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To this day, the late basketball star’s signature line includes some of the most popular on-court sneakers with NBA, WNBA and collegiate players.—
Riley Jones,
Footwear News,
31 May 2025
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The sneaker is the epitome of femininity in sneaker form, even at first glance.—
Tiana Randall,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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Its residents were the usual suspects—moonshiners, prohibition runners, alligator skinners, and plume hunters, who, at the beginning of the 20th century, were slowly decimating the bird population to support the fashion for exotic feathers in women’s hats.—
Stanley Stewart,
Travel + Leisure,
17 Mar. 2025
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Inskip and her colleagues zeroed in on the medieval city of Winchester, which had not only skinners, tailors, and furriers, but also a hospital for leprosy patients.—
BySean Cummings,
science.org,
7 Aug. 2024
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“Sharpie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sharpie. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.
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