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swindles

  • plural
    of swindle.
    swindle
    verb (used with object)
    to cheat (a person, business, etc.) out of money or other assets.
  • present tense form
    of swindle (3rd person singular).
    swindle
    verb (used with object)
    to cheat (a person, business, etc.) out of money or other assets.

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Americans are awash in scams, and while some swindles originate overseas, they are increasingly coming from closer to home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

Whipple then swindles the Pitkin family out of its last remaining asset, a cow.

From Salon ● May 17, 2025

But all of the theft, big and small, illustrates an epidemic of scams and swindles at a time America was grappling with overrun hospitals, school closures and shuttered businesses.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 12, 2023

"Inflation swindles the bond investor ... it swindles the person who keeps their cash under their mattress, it swindles almost everybody," Buffett said.

From Reuters ● Apr. 30, 2022

What these officers could do obviously the professional conjurer can do, no less the humbug and quack who swindles money out of the credulous and superstitious.

From Spiritualism and the New Psychology An Explanation of Spiritualist Phenomena and Beliefs in Terms of Modern Knowledge by Millais Culpin