profiteering

Example Sentences

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Profiteering “is an accelerant of price increases,” she told me.

From New York Times • Jun. 14, 2022

Profiteering at a Jimmy Jean-Louis, a Haitian-born actor who now lives in Los Angeles but has visited his homeland frequently since the quake, said not much had changed since the disaster.

From Scientific American • Jan. 12, 2011

I’m Shocked, Shocked, to Find Profiteering Going on Here An old Roman maxim enjoins us to “let justice be done, though the heavens fall.”

From Salon • Apr. 20, 2010

Profiteering by munitions makers in World War II.

From Time Magazine Archive

The new Profiteering Bill, which, to judge by the criticisms levelled against its exceptions and safeguards, will be about as effective as its predecessor, was read a third time.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-05-19 by Seaman, Owen, Sir