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The False Claims Act dates back to 1863, when Congress, fearful that people who were supplying the Union Army were enriching themselves by defrauding the government, enacted it.

From Salon • May 20, 2025

I think we were enriching each other just from the jump from our Zoom meetings.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2025

The operation began in tandem with the now-famous Stuxnet attack that sabotaged Iran’s nuclear programme in 2009 and 2010 by destroying a thousand or more centrifuges that were enriching uranium.

From The Guardian • May 29, 2015

The operation began in tandem with the now-famous Stuxnet attack that sabotaged Iran's nuclear program in 2009 and 2010 by destroying a thousand or more centrifuges that were enriching uranium.

From Reuters • May 29, 2015

While the kings were ruining themselves by their great enterprises, and the nobles exhausting their resources by private wars, the lower orders were enriching themselves by commerce.

From American Institutions and Their Influence by Tocqueville, Alexis de