mulct
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Time Warner figured it could mulct the other pay-TV companies for every last dime because, really, what TV service would dare not carry the Dodgers, whatever the price?
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2022
“Existing at the pleasure of the advertisers, to mulct the public, gratifying their stupidity, and render some small advance on investment to the owners, offering putative employment to their etiolated, wastrel sons.”
From Washington Post • Mar. 6, 2018
Fortnight ago the League of New York Theatres, Inc., six months in forming, got into motion against the Broadway ticket-speculators who annually mulct theatre-goers of thousands of dollars.
From Time Magazine Archive
With his soft, eager voice he had been telling his chief that the German and French miners of potash were about to mulct the U. S. farmer who needs their soluble potashes for fertilizers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Be it premised, that the reason assigned for this mulct of the acolytes is that by the proceeds thereof the washing of their surplices may be paid for.
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
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