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

Museveni took up arms after a rigged election in 1980 and led a guerrilla insurgency known as the Ugandan Bush War that finally captured Kampala in 1986.

From Barron's • Jan. 17, 2026

The Ocean Queen was a stout, no-nonsense workboat built from thick planks of Alaska yellow cedar, rigged for long-lining and purse seining.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer