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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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Venus Williams is not technically retired but the 44-year-old played just two matches early in the year and has largely hung up her racket.Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 4 Dec. 2024
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These racket sports’ lower barriers to entry and less crowded sponsorship environment give brands a chance to become early adopters at a lower cost, securing dominant visibility before the sports fully mature.Atte Suominen, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
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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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Among them were: Gregory McKnight, 64, of Swartz Creek, who 13 years ago pleaded guilty to wire fraud as part of a $72 million Ponzi scheme, a term used for soliciting investments and promising high returns and then failing to invest the funds and pay off investors.Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 13 Dec. 2024
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Rodney Phelps, of Somerset, was sentenced to 108 months in prison and ordered to pay a restitution of more than $2.4 million after involvement in a Ponzi scheme in 2020.Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 13 Dec. 2024
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Surf anglers, however, figured out that these heavy lead jigs will fly a mile, even into a hard onshore wind.Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 17 Oct. 2024
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Their wide profile also produces more flash and wobble than a diamond jig when seen from a distance.Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 17 Oct. 2024
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Defenders of Google might argue that tax dodges help the company amass needed funds for future innovations.IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Dec. 2010
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Reality check: Despite the dodges, Harris has stated some of her policy priorities — namely to boost security on the Southwest border, put more limitations on asylum, and bring down the costs of food and housing.Alex Thompson, Axios, 3 Nov. 2024
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This stratagem was exacerbated by prosecutors’ racializing of the case.The Editors, National Review, 9 Dec. 2024
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Not according to Hinch and Our Man Petzold, who reports the strategy is part of the Tigers’ plan to maximize the effectiveness of their opener/bulk-relief stratagem.Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 23 Sep. 2024
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On average, each home has around 17 smart devices, and many people own electric vehicles.Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
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The problem comes in when one user has an iPhone and the other has an Android device or if there is a group chat with both kinds of users.Ken Colburn, The Arizona Republic, 16 Dec. 2024
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Ryan Harris, 36, of New Orleans, was among eight people and two law firms that have been charged in what federal prosecutors say was a yearslong scheme of crashing vehicles into tractor-trailers, fleeing while passengers in those vehicles pretended to be the drivers and lying about what happened.Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports, arkansasonline.com, 14 Dec. 2024
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Pacifica came out on its first possession and used a no-huddle, up-tempo scheme to drive 72 yards for a 7-0 lead on Royster’s seven-yard touchdown run.Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2024
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“Three-card monte.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/three-card%20monte. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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