extort

The streamer accused Afram’s law firm of “hostile attempts to extort money from Netflix over this situation — including immediately demanding $165 million for the film rather than work with us in good faith.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

This means the agency will no longer extort defendants into silence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

DragonForce want the BBC to report the hack - they are apparently trying to extort the company for money.

From BBC ● May 2, 2025

They can certainly extort a painful price from the world while trying to, and the full reckoning may be more than we can bear.

From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2025

He was a proud and independent man who was opposed to unemployment insurance and never hesitated to whine, whimper, wheedle, and extort for as much as he could get from whomever he could.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

“Landmark extorts small businesses, demanding payment for webpages that are essential for running a business,” Attorney General Bob Ferguson said in a statement Thursday.

From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2021

“Here you have someone trying to lawfully work and support their families, and then someone turns around and extorts them,” Erzen said.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 7, 2017

This means, for example, that a U.S. senator who extorts money is no more immune to being charged with this crime than an ordinary American.

From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2017

The main perk of being the bid’s junior partner is that we won’t be on the hook for the full array of infrastructural follies Fifa normally extorts from the host.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 11, 2017

Shakespeare gives to Richard therefore a power which excites astonishment, and a courage which extorts admiration.

From Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

He has filed meritless lawsuits against media companies and social media platforms and extorted large monetary settlements.

From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026

The court found that the girl’s mother extorted thousands of dollars from Franco.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026

The relationships, Canter said, make Ernst vulnerable to being extorted if people learned of them and could give someone undue influence over her.

From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2025

"As business people we were extorted," he says.

From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2024

It had been shown that both the Parkers went to these rooms, and further, that Charles Parker had received £30 of the blackmail extorted by Wood and Allen.

From The Trial of Oscar Wilde From the Shorthand Reports by Anonymous

This could be for a variety of reasons, such as extorting money from them, to spark up a romance, or simply for their own satisfaction.

From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2026

But her political career ended when her husband, Bill Collins, a dentist and businessman, was convicted in 1993 of extorting money from people who had business before the state while his wife was governor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

Cohen acknowledged once telling a prosecutor he felt that Daniels and her lawyer were extorting Trump.

From Seattle Times ● May 26, 2024

This may be related to Fox’s triumph in a previous defamation suit brought by ex-Playboy model Karen McDougal, who sued the network over Carlson falsely accusing her of extorting Trump on his show.

From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2023

“You would think,” Skarpi’s voice rolled out like thick honey, “fine churchmen such as yourselves could find better things to do than arresting storytellers and extorting money from honest men.”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss