gouge

The government says authorities have carried out raids and taken action against hoarders and black marketeers who are exploiting shortages to price gouge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026

That doesn’t mean that the grocers can’t gouge shoppers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2024

Formulaic demands of the PGA Tour, where bomb and gouge to receptive greens is such a profitable pursuit, were not the qualities required last week.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2024

Underwater footage appeared to show the plane partially afloat, with at least one wheel creating a gouge in the fragile coral.

From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2023

It took him ten minutes to gouge out a hole that he judged to be right.

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli

While carvers in other areas long ago turned to mechanical cutters and polishers, the craftsmen here use only hammers, mallets and a variety of chisels and gouges.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 21, 2023

As Earth’s climate has warmed, glaciers have rapidly melted in high mountain ranges across the globe, and the resulting water accumulates in unstable gouges cut by the glaciers as they retreat.

From Science Magazine ● Feb. 8, 2023

The gouges they make in pursuit of that meal also allow gasses and liquids to escape the body.

From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2022

And what, exactly, had left such deep gouges in the hind leg of a trapped bobcat?

From Salon ● Jan. 12, 2022

There were deep gouges where he'd raked the wood.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

More than 1,400 people are missing and at least 552 have been killed after a devastating, tsunami-like wall of water gouged a path through the border region between Nepal and Tibet, sweeping away entire villages.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

LUMEZI, Zambia—Three-year-old Dickson Ngwira was deep into his afternoon nap when half a dozen elephants, using trunks as trowels, gouged a five-foot-wide hole in the brick wall near his bed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

Replacing the gouged front bumper was a $1,100 job and Mandell would’ve paid the first $500.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 23, 2025

Someone had gouged out the two S’s in a Cesar Chavez quote about “drawing the goodne...” out of students.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025

A foot of steel looks as if it has been transformed into warm butter and gouged by the fingers of a child.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Meanwhile, price gouging can mean unsuspecting tourists can be charged upward of $1,000 for rides that last just 20 minutes.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

The prime minister's office asked the public to avoid panic-buying and warned that price gouging was a criminal offence.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

The two companies decided to change the way the figurines were auctioned to avoid the gouging narrative.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

Artists are presumed to underprice their tickets because they don’t want to be seen gouging their fans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Before Mr. Washburn is even finished, Mami is sobbing, great gouging sobs, as if she is trying to scoop out all the sadness inside herself so there will be room for other feelings.

From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez