overcharge

Example Sentences

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C. Meat packers are using “their position as middlemen to overcharge grocery stores and, ultimately, families.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 2025

The lack of transparency enables PBMs to overcharge patients and health plans.

From Salon • May 31, 2025

The HUD figure, which is based on Census data for typical apartment rents in an area, is used to ensure landlords cannot overcharge low-income residents with housing choice vouchers.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2025

Due to this capture, Google is able to overcharge text-ad clients and shroud its actual terms in secrecy in a way that it hasn’t with more visually oriented ads.

From Slate • Aug. 6, 2024

Before the overcharge is made the cells should be carefully inspected for short circuits and other abnormal conditions.

From Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by McMeen, Samuel