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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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for three-card monte
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The gang was estimated to have made more than €2 million from the racket.Chris Hall, WIRED, 18 Dec. 2024
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The ball floats into the service box and onto the racket of Iga Swiatek, one of two women’s players who can claim to be the best in the world.Charlie Eccleshare, The Athletic, 21 Nov. 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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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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Chris Hondros | Getty Images The 10th and final distribution from a fund for victims of the late Ponzi scheme king Bernie Madoff began Monday, the Department of Justice said.Dan Mangan, CNBC, 30 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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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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Rather, the entire game is based around timing dodge rolls to avoid enemy attacks.Paul Tassi, Forbes, 16 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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This stratagem was exacerbated by prosecutors’ racializing of the case.The Editors, National Review, 9 Dec. 2024
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Eligible consumers will be limited to seeking compensation on a maximum of five devices.CBS News, CBS News, 3 Jan. 2025
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Surveillance footage shows Jabbar placing the devices ahead of the attack.Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
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Few of the infinite-memory schemes are taking this into account.Lance Eliot, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2025
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The 13-10 loss to Michigan prompted discussions about scheme adjustments and rotation changes to make things easier against Tennessee in the Playoff.Cameron Teague Robinson, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
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