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Much the cross-examination Thursday was spent delving in to the financial wrongdoing, with Murdaugh saying he was sorry to have swindled millions from people.

From Washington Post • Feb. 23, 2023

Anyone who hears someone say something like “I’m not interested in discussing my medical history with you today, thanks” and thinks “Wow, she must have swindled somebody” is making a wildly unreasonable leap.

From Slate • Mar. 20, 2021

Officials say that Lloyd, Carr may have swindled investors out of as much as $75 million over the past 18 months.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Don't you know, then, that I have swindled you?"

From Hunger by Hamsun, Knut

I must have swindled the railway companies and the Post Office out of a pot of money.

From The House 'Round the Corner by Tracy, Louis