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-rigged

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adjective

  1. (in combination) (of a sailing vessel) having a rig of a certain kind

    ketch-rigged

    schooner-rigged
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“We didn’t just want to have this as a rigged game.”

From Los Angeles Times

Polymarket users suggested the map had been rigged, zeroing in on a bet in which an anonymous user turned $62 into more than $6,700 shortly before the Myrnohrad market was resolved.

From The Wall Street Journal

Take Shawn Fulcher, who transferred to Alabama State for the 2024-25 basketball season after allegedly taking part in rigged games with Buffalo the year before.

From The Wall Street Journal

Museveni took up arms after a rigged election in 1980 and led a guerrilla insurgency known as the Ugandan Bush War that finally captured Kampala in 1986.

From Barron's

South Korea's first president, Syngman Rhee, elected in 1948, was forced to resign by a popular student-led uprising in 1960, after attempting to extend his term through rigged elections.

From Barron's

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