mulct
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Time Warner figured it could mulct the other pay-TV companies for every last dime because, really, what TV service would dare not carry the Dodgers, whatever the price?
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2022
“Existing at the pleasure of the advertisers, to mulct the public, gratifying their stupidity, and render some small advance on investment to the owners, offering putative employment to their etiolated, wastrel sons.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 6, 2018
Shrewd, he realized early that complete liberty to mulct the devotees of chance would never be given him under the laws of a land so large as Germany.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Savannah, Captain Carter's successor began an investigation resulting in charges that he had conspired with the harbor contractors to mulct the Government, by shoddy work and extravagant prices, of some $1,800,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
Appin paid dearly for its merriment in the land of Cailein Mor, and the MacDonalds were mulct most generously for our every hoof and horn.
From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Neil Munro
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