rigged
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The auction is rigged not for the buyer or the seller but for the auctioneer.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026
Cheers would erupt when a young donkey reached the conclusion that “I kinda think the system is rigged against everyone.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026
Polymarket users suggested the map had been rigged, zeroing in on a bet in which an anonymous user turned $62 into more than $6,700 shortly before the Myrnohrad market was resolved.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2026
South Korea's first president, Syngman Rhee, elected in 1948, was forced to resign by a popular student-led uprising in 1960, after attempting to extend his term through rigged elections.
From Barron's • Jan. 16, 2026
He rigged up a sawmill powered by the water he had diverted.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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