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Enter Email Sign Up Related: What Harry Sinden thinks of these record-setting Bruins, and other thoughts Entering weekend play, the Panthers, Islanders, and Penguins remained in a spirited game of three-card monte (no relation to the Bruins coach) to sort out the two wild-card spots in the East.
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Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Apr. 2023
With this certificate, the shell company – whose sole purpose is to hold and hide assets – becomes one of a series of Russian dolls, each fit snugly into the next, creating a type of three-card monte in which the taxing authorities can never find assets nor owners.
—Beverly Moran, The Conversation, 5 Oct. 2021
The game is three-card monte.
—Robert Pearl, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
Determining responsibility for hiring underage workers, like determining responsibility for anything else that affects low-wage workers, is a game of three-card monte.
—Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2023
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Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Apr. 2023
With this certificate, the shell company – whose sole purpose is to hold and hide assets – becomes one of a series of Russian dolls, each fit snugly into the next, creating a type of three-card monte in which the taxing authorities can never find assets nor owners.
—Beverly Moran, The Conversation, 5 Oct. 2021
The game is three-card monte.
—Robert Pearl, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
Determining responsibility for hiring underage workers, like determining responsibility for anything else that affects low-wage workers, is a game of three-card monte.
—Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2023
See all Example Sentences for three-card monte
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There have also been rumblings of a protection racket involving the brother of the ex-police commissioner, who had his home raided.New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 4 Jan. 2025
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The state is a center for organized crime, with dozens of relatively small cartels battling one another to control extortion rackets, smuggling routes and trafficking of illicit drugs, mainly crystal meth.César Rodríguez For The New York Times, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025
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Our society is a pyramid scheme, with the young supporting the old.Emma Green, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
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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
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But when the initial concept struggled, the duo faked bank records and continued to woo investors, creating what eventually became a Ponzi scheme.Sharon Bernstein, Sacramento Bee, 7 Jan. 2025
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The fund disbursing money to the victims of Bernie Madoff’s legendary Ponzi scheme began its 10th and final distribution on Monday, putting another $131 million in the pockets of swindled investors.Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 30 Dec. 2024
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Thankfully, the courts have seen through these shams, and in eighteen days, the jig will finally be up.Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
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In pursuit of a superior product, handmade jigs, custom pieces, and even equipment are all designed by us.Lilian Raji, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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The developers have also added new skills related to the dodge roll, such as the ability to leave behind an illusory copy of your character to act as a decoy, which make the new mechanic feel essential to the modernized gameplay the sequel implements.Diego Argüello, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2024
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In some other cases, the artists knew about the project and could use it as a tax dodge of their own.Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 18 Dec. 2024
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Its biting satire is complimented by engaging mechanics like the stratagems.David Faris, Newsweek, 28 Dec. 2024
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The competitors are in a trancelike state, building a stratagem.Maddie Connors, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2024
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But the way in which the device moves across the snow in snowboarding is very much a surfing feeling.Lea Lane, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
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Once enabled, the suite downloads AI models to the device for local processing.Thomas Westerholm, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
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In short, its core competency needs to be responding to predictable natural disasters rather than virtue-signaling about climate change that its expensive (but piddling in the global scheme of things) green-energy initiatives are powerless to affect one way or the other.The Editors, National Review, 13 Jan. 2025
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The scheme, which launches on January 14th, is only available in Korea for now, with expansion to other countries planned for the future.Janhoi McGregor, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
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“Three-card monte.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/three-card%20monte. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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