Example Sentences

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It is true whether you are a scalper, a swing trader or a value investor like Warren Buffett.

From MarketWatch • May 26, 2026

"The seller was kind and not a scalper."

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2024

Teresa Talotta paid a scalper $200 for a ticket valued at $85.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 3, 2024

After losing her place on Ticketmaster’s website, she ended up buying tickets from a scalper for 9,000 pesos each, about $455, three times the official price.

From New York Times • Dec. 16, 2022

“They paid like three hundred dollars to some scalper for counterfeit tickets!”

From "Small Steps" by Louis Sachar