Example Sentences

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The travel certificates showed how a network of resellers — including ex-cons and schemers — replaced pet stores as middlemen.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2025

"It was the ex-cons," says Gleb, referring to the many serving prisoners or convicts conscripted into Wagner last year.

From BBC • Jul. 22, 2023

And calling newly released brothers and sisters returning citizens rather than "ex-cons" erases a nasty stigma and groups us all together as if we were one family, the way it should be.

From Salon • Sep. 2, 2022

Cosby’s novels aren’t about private investigators; they’re about flawed everyday men, often ex-cons, who are after various types of redemption.

From New York Times • Sep. 5, 2021

But this business of hiring a bunch of ex-cons and—Hey!

From Success A Novel by Adams, Samuel Hopkins