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has swindled

  • present perfect of swindle (3rd person singular).

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Being considered is Musk's claim that Altman - with whom he founded OpenAI - has swindled him out of millions of dollars and reneged on the ChatGPT-maker's original non-profit mission.

From BBC Apr. 28, 2026

Mine were all the rights of social intercourse, craft by craft, that India, stony-hearted step-mother of collectors, has swindled us out of.

From American Notes by Kipling, Rudyard

"He has swindled me, and I—I saw him at a theater to-night, and afterward followed him out here."

From With Links of Steel by Carter, Nicholas

It is fortunate for the traveling public, so many of whom he has swindled, that he is for a time placed where he can do no more mischief.

From Struggling Upward, or Luke Larkin's Luck by Alger, Horatio

So you can depend he has swindled you and I; do not trust him farther than you can see him, and recommend him in the right numbers.

From Secret Band of Brothers A Full and True Exposition of All the Various Crimes, Villanies, and Misdeeds of This Powerful Organization in the United States. by Green, Jonathan Harrington