Example Sentences

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The repackagers, Wyden told The New York Times that year, are "a bunch of fast-buck artists," trying to bring doctors into a scheme to make "easy money."

From Salon • Oct. 21, 2021

Standard practice means the sleazy subdivision and the asphalted shopping center, the familiar fast-buck operation, composed of short-term, quick profit, in-and-out financing and instant obsolescence.”

From Washington Post • Sep. 21, 2015

Icahn has since transformed himself into a "shareholder activist," but he still has the whiff of a fast-buck artist.

From BusinessWeek • Feb. 10, 2011

However, the idea that a string of masterpieces would have been born if cinemas had been purged of every fast-buck sequel and special-effects extravaganza of the past three decades is bats.

From The Guardian • Jul. 2, 2010

For years, the securities industry in the U.S. and elsewhere has been host to fast-buck brokerage firms that have ridden the back of the bull market like so many parasites.

From Time Magazine Archive