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Epic had claimed that Apple has been gouging app makers by charging commissions ranging from 15% to 30% for in-app transactions because it forbids other options on its iPhone, iPad and iPod.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 22, 2021

Since November of 2013, the Army Corps of Engineers’ Deep Dredge project, an effort to widen and deepen shipping lanes, has been gouging Government Cut, the shipping channel that accesses Port of Miami.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 17, 2014

In California, for example, the state highway commission has been gouging away at the Santa Monica Mountains near Los Angeles.

From Time Magazine Archive

With a monopoly on power metals Asteroid has been gouging the world.

From The Black Tide by Stangland, Arthur G.