bilked
Example Sentences
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Federal prosecutors say dozens of people bilked taxpayers by setting up scam social-services companies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 2025
Prosecutors say he bilked insurance companies out of hundreds of millions of dollars.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 3, 2024
Attorney General Kris Mayes and Gov. Katie Hobbs in May announced a massive investigation into billing fraud that state officials say has bilked Arizona out of hundreds of millions of Medicaid dollars.
From Washington Times • Oct. 19, 2023
The suit says that SBF’s parents “exploited their access and influence within the FTX enterprise to enrich themselves” by millions of dollars and knowingly bilked FTX and its customers as they did.
From Slate • Sep. 20, 2023
The men only got two hundred pieces-of-eight each, after all their toil, for their Welshman was indeed a thief, and bilked his crews, no less than he plundered the Spaniards, without remorse.
From Essays in Little by Lang, Andrew
