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rip-off

noun as in trick; robbery

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Customers say they feel "completely ripped off" after believing they were buying from independent boutiques in England but were delivered cheap clothes and jewellery, mass-shipped from warehouses in east Asia.

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After the walkout, writers did secure groundbreaking protections for AI in contracts, but they are still confronting AI models ripping off their work without compensation.

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Streeting previously insisted that he would not allow pharma companies to "rip off" taxpayers and described drug companies' approach as "short-sighted".

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I’ve been through too much in music to get ripped off again.”

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“We will not tolerate party houses that disrupt our neighborhoods and threaten public safety, or sit back while our laws are violated and rent-stabilized housing is ripped off the market,” Soto said in a statement.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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