bilked

Example Sentences

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A company she registered bilked the state of more than $14 million from 2019 to 2024 by pretending to provide necessary treatment, prosecutors alleged.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

Others fell for the ruse and were bilked out of a few hundred dollars.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 30, 2023

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

We got into it this evening through that house in the Place Cornavin where Macdermott was bilked by a Sinn Feiner.”

From Mystery at Geneva An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings by Macaulay, Rose, Dame