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Recent Examples of Synonyms for racketeered
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Extreme heat has forced several communities in the Washington area to cancel or scale back their Independence Day celebrations.
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The Kings forced 20 turnovers, leading to a 22-6 advantage in points off turnovers.
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The necessity of it to my defence against a more heinous charge could alone have extorted from me so painful an indecorum.
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Richards attained fame as a pioneering male supermodel in major ad campaigns by the likes of Bruce Weber, Richard Avedon, and Helmut Newton, but all along he was being extorted and exploited by Mierers and his followers to bolster (and bankroll) their shaky, pseudoscientific philosophy.
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However, the politics are complicated as Long Feng (Chin Han) tries to keep the Earth King from knowing about the war and is eventually blackmailed into corruption by the Fire Nation princess, Azula (Elizabeth Yu).
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He was never blackmailed by Epstein.
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The performance uptick that Motorola squeezed from the 2026 Razr+ is minor at best, with results showing no significant year-over-year gains.
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There was Paris squeezed between meetings on a fleeting work trip.
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When Sedalia businessman Jorge Guevara saw on social media Tuesday that the Royals’ 50-50 charity raffle was going toward the American Red Cross’ earthquake relief efforts in Venezuela, he instantly was compelled to enter online.
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The sidewalk in front of my house had some lips and dips that could’ve compelled me to rent heavy equipment and get to work.
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Even with that 2024 ruling and last year’s trial, Rinsch hasn’t paid back Netflix anything, though he still is obliged to.
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Not everyone is lonely; some women, no longer obliged to marry, are probably happier and freer.
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Enterprises that route requests between multiple models can be coerced into selecting the weakest route.
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The study was later shut down after an internal review confirmed that patients were coerced into participating.
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So far, Milei has defended his Cabinet chief, even as the scandal damaged his government’s public image, constrained his political leverage in negotiations with allies and undermined his communication about spending cuts to Argentines scraping by on salaries that increasingly fall behind inflation.
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Private equity acquirers, particularly add-on platforms, are constrained by senior-debt service ratios that mechanically discount concentration risk.
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“Racketeered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/racketeered. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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