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

Profiteering we canna endure—and will'na, I'm telling you.

From Between You and Me by Lauder, Harry, Sir