extorts

Example Sentences

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“Landmark extorts small businesses, demanding payment for webpages that are essential for running a business,” Attorney General Bob Ferguson said in a statement Thursday.

From Seattle Times • May 13, 2021

The main perk of being the bid’s junior partner is that we won’t be on the hook for the full array of infrastructural follies Fifa normally extorts from the host.

From The Guardian • Apr. 11, 2017

“But they make sure that nobody robs, nobody extorts, nobody kidnaps. They don’t mess with the people here.”

From Washington Post • May 29, 2015

He believes this pressure to be friendly is caused by “unequal economic power that extorts emotional work.”

From Salon • Nov. 16, 2014

"A week ago I paid sixty thousand roubles for him, and now he extorts more money from me and behaves like this on the top of it all!"

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