rip-off
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I had always heard that annuities were bad, a rip-off, and something to avoid.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 12, 2026
The imagery is everywhere in town; recent grad Sam Geller recalls playing a Lenox-themed Monopoly rip-off at the community center growing up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
That seems downright quaint now; the rip-off they are effecting is at such a bigger scale, and we hardly have time to pay attention to it.
From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2025
Spellberg calls it “the greatest rip-off perpetrated on the American people in the last century.”
From Salon ● Dec. 31, 2024
“We went to these caverns in Tennessee once. A real rip-off tourist trap. What were they called?”
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
As the night wore on and the energy in the stands flatlined, they piled into an empty section in the upper reaches of the right field seats with plans to rip off their shirts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
When he rises to leave, Hank calls Aaron by his real name, causing Aaron to turn around and rip off Hank’s mask.
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026
They rip off their clothes, dunk their heads in the dip and lead dance battles to La Bouche’s “Be My Lover.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026
He described the fuel market generally as a "rip off".
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026
It would be a whole lot harder for an investment banker to rip off people with subprime mortgages if he actually had to live with the people he was ripping off.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
