gouging

Example Sentences

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Any penalties would go into a new “Price Gouging Penalty Fund,” which lawmakers could return to residents as a refund through the state budget.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2022

In a recent report titled “Price Gouging in a Public Health Crisis,” America’s Health Insurance Plans, an industry group, said that “health insurance providers proactively eliminated patient cost-sharing for COVID-19 diagnostic testing and treatment.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2021

From Price Gouging to the Open Road' — unless large sections were deleted.

From Nature • Jun. 17, 2014

Gouging along a big embankment north of the obliterated city of Dura-Europos, Yale diggers under Professor Clark Hopkins encountered the main room of a synagog.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gouging out the surfaces of timbers in crooked channels, to promote a circulation of air.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir