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Landlords in the area were gouging renters, Koerner said, and he briefly considered living in his car before one of his employees offered a La Crescenta space that had just become available.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 27, 2025

Neither they nor the governor had evidence that oil companies were gouging.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2023

There was another movement called the Grange, which was an agricultural agrarian populist movement that rose up in opposition to the railroad companies, which were gouging farmers on shipping their crops.

From Slate • Jul. 18, 2018

When he decided that the world's tin producers were gouging the U.S., he slashed the price the RFC would pay for tin.

From Time Magazine Archive

My words, too, were gouging and scraping my throat as they came out; I could feel my knees getting absurdly weak, and my mouth tasted as though I had an old copper penny in it.

From Lone Star Planet by Piper, H. Beam