as in to squeeze
to rob by the use of trickery or threats
reamed a whole new generation of suckers with a variation of the Ponzi scheme
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Recent Examples of ream
His mentor, top opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, decided to reaming in hiding inside the country.
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Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 6 Jan. 2025
Plus, Rip got to ream out the poor preacher who suggested doing a prayer.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2024
On the show, Trump reamed the Johnson Amendment, and took credit for the IRS’s lack enforcement of the law under his administration.
—Angele Latham, The Tennessean, 16 Sep. 2024
That day on the Hill, Smith sat patiently while the chair reamed his company for the shameful neglect that ended up weakening national security.
—Steven Levy, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2024
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Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 6 Jan. 2025
Plus, Rip got to ream out the poor preacher who suggested doing a prayer.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2024
On the show, Trump reamed the Johnson Amendment, and took credit for the IRS’s lack enforcement of the law under his administration.
—Angele Latham, The Tennessean, 16 Sep. 2024
That day on the Hill, Smith sat patiently while the chair reamed his company for the shameful neglect that ended up weakening national security.
—Steven Levy, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2024
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Hundreds of people squeezed into the Jewish Community Center in Boulder, Colo., for a vigil that featured prayer, singing and emotional testimony from a victim and witnesses of the firebombing attack in the city’s downtown, after a federal judge blocked the deportation of the suspect’s family.—
Colleen Slevin,
Los Angeles Times,
5 June 2025
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In some towns, utility poles were removed so the caravans could squeeze through.—
Angela Jackson,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
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And yet, it’s still rooted in something real, because Perry plucked much of the heavy-handed dialog Keery delivers verbatim from the Wowee Zowee press kit, contemporaneous Malkmus interviews, and things Malkmus told Perry himself.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
4 June 2025
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The eggs, of course, are plucked from the hen house each morning.—
Matthew Monagan,
Travel + Leisure,
3 June 2025
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Trouble is, the elder Broadway managed to cheat St. Christopher out of his share of the plunder.—
Joe Leydon,
Variety,
13 June 2025
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Iran's response: cheating and hiding its nuclear weapons program; sprinting toward a bomb; and trying to assassinate senior American officials, including President Trump.—
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 June 2025
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Rough as that was, a fielding mistake may have stung worse.—
Compiled From Wire Reports,
The Orlando Sentinel,
5 June 2025
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According to news stories, Macron was stung by the report’s lukewarm reception in Algeria.—
Lauren Collins,
New Yorker,
2 June 2025
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And while other candidates have brought up the allegations and hit at Cuomo's record, no one attack seems to be sticking, and polling shows that Cuomo remains the front-runner.—
Oren Oppenheim,
ABC News,
4 June 2025
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Only a year ago, Google released AI Overviews, a search feature that told users to eat rocks and use glue to stick cheese to pizza.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
3 June 2025
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Night shift in a teeming academic hospital can feel like a relentlessly heaving freighter, and I’d been hustling from ward to ward bailing water; this task was just another on my scut list.—
Danielle Ofri,
New Yorker,
7 June 2025
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There are a lot of risks doing that, but if someone wants to go all in and hustle for success, this can be a good option.—
Joseph Drups,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2025
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Gordon mentions beating the Bears’ rivals as one of his key team goals for the 2025 season.—
DJ Siddiqi,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
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This, in turn, provoked police to wade into the crowd, beating people with nightsticks.—
Andrew R. Chow,
Time,
10 June 2025
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This bled into the album’s dizzying synths, cathartic confessions, and capsule-like storytelling.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
11 June 2025
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Deputy District Attorney Miriam Hemming said the knife fractured the victim’s sternum, pierced his lung and severed an artery, nearly causing the man to bleed out.—
City News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 June 2025
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“Ream.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ream. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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