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thimblerig

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noun

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Verb
  • More wearable tech news: Are Halliday's AI smart glasses an amazing new wearable or surefire way to cheat?
    Adam Smith, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Their legal complaints argue that patients were misled about the accuracy and utility of PGT-A, cheating them out of time, money, and even dreams of having families, since some people have discarded embryos based on the test results.
    Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 6 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • These characters are fluent in three-card monte rap, no cards required.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2025
  • 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
Verb
  • The international order forged after World War II is imploding, squeezed on all sides by the return of strongmen, nationalism and spheres of influence — with President Trump leading the charge.
    Zachary Basu, Axios, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Goldman Sachs previously estimated that these tariffs could increase inflation by 1 percent while squeezing U.S. company profits and risking retaliatory measures from other nations.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Our society is a pyramid scheme, with the young supporting the old.
    Emma Green, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • They were all plucked from Gerbi’s orbit of creatives.
    Rhonda Richford, WWD, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Leaving the ‘Touch of Gold’ Holly in the planter, pluck out the cool weather annuals to make room for their summer-friendly counterparts.
    Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • With the Ponzi scheme charges resolved, law enforcement turned their attention to the death of Michael Cochran and exhumed the body.
    Steve Weisman, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
  • The crime, which federal prosecutors have described in essence as an art-world Ponzi scheme, began in 2018 and involved some 55 artworks.
    Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • That s–t just kinda stuck with me, from the n—as that used to hustle and hang out with me.
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Garita, on the other hand, hustled for loose balls and rebounds, finishing with just four points but a team-high 10 rebounds.
    Timothy Dashiell, Baltimore Sun, 26 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The latest demands from Washington to its allies read like a protection racket rather than diplomacy between friends.
    Matt Robison, Newsweek, 18 Feb. 2025
  • In particular, new tariffs in the U.S. are expected to hike its ball, racket and baseball bat prices.
    Brendan Coffey, Sportico.com, 3 Feb. 2025
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“Thimblerig.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thimblerig. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.

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