inside job
Example Sentences
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But if we seek self-worth from a three-piece living-room suite from Fendi Casa, we will never stop spending because, as you are painfully aware, self-worth is an inside job.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 17, 2026
This and the fact that the thieves deliberately bypassed the one crown containing fake gems were fairly solid signals, Mr. Wittman says, that the heist was an inside job.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025
Gabriel says that his childhood was engulfed by outlandish misinformation about 9/11 being "an inside job" and the Royal Family being shape-shifting lizards.
From BBC • Oct. 2, 2025
Was it an inside job at that post office?
From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2023
He told me he worked in Easons office, clerk, inside job?
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
