extort
extorts
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present tense formof extort (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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“Landmark extorts small businesses, demanding payment for webpages that are essential for running a business,” Attorney General Bob Ferguson said in a statement Thursday.
From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2021
The main perk of being the bid’s junior partner is that we won’t be on the hook for the full array of infrastructural follies Fifa normally extorts from the host.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 11, 2017
“But they make sure that nobody robs, nobody extorts, nobody kidnaps. They don’t mess with the people here.”
From Washington Post ● May 29, 2015
He believes this pressure to be friendly is caused by “unequal economic power that extorts emotional work.”
From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2014
It is not by them, it is by personal appeals, through the admiration she extorts from him, and through sheer force of will, that she impels him to the deed.
From Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley
