fleece
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“I think something like Infinity Vision is a joke to fleece moviegoers into thinking they’re getting a premium experience when they’re really not,” Storch said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
This subterranean dormitory is run by Halyna Mysnyk, a 44-year-old subway employee in a red hat and a navy fleece.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
In any coziness competition, if such contests exist, fleece is tough to beat.
From Salon ● May 17, 2026
His outfit, an Off White hoodie and a fleece bucket hat with a tortoise on the front, is just as uplifting and whimsical as his attitude.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026
I find a fleece jacket that’s really soft and warm.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
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Homeowners struggle to get a permit to add a bedroom, and taxpayers can’t get through to the agency that fleeces them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
A federal judge shows how this hospital ‘discount’ fleeces drug makers and patients.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
She said the organisation had also come in handy for providing pants, trainers and shoes, as well as helping her to get the specific fleeces her special needs daughter required.
From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2026
Every year the programme receives around 35,000 applications from people who want to don the famous red and blue fleeces, to see if they can spot a bargain and make a profit.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2025
“Down there near the riverbank,” she said, “where the bushes grow thick, are sheep with fleeces of gold. Go fetch me some of their shining wool.”
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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There’s a big industry built around the secondhand market, and if you look in the right places, you can find a good deal without getting fleeced.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
No revolutionary, Wood writes, “defended with more vehemence common ordinary people against the aristocracy—‘against being ridden like horses, fleeced like sheep, worked like cattle, and fed and cloathed like swine and hounds.’
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
Related: ‘I have lost nearly everything’: My mother’s trustee changed her $1 million will and my attorney fleeced me.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 16, 2026
Williamson, who allegedly fleeced Becerra’s political kitty when she owned a government relations firm before joining Newsom’s staff, pleaded not guilty to bank and tax fraud charges.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2025
He met up with his brother Walter in Chicago, where he was fleeced and pickpocketed from the time he hit town till the time he left.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
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“I started realizing that these DSOs are just fleecing the doctors, like totally taking advantage of them,” said Williams, who amplifies his objections by co-hosting the podcast Just Say No to the DSO.
From Slate ● Mar. 17, 2026
“These groups have been fleecing taxpayers and Veterans for far too long,” VA Secretary Doug Collins was quoted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026
Not only did this nonleadership fail to halt existing fraud, criminals expanded over the next seven years into fleecing programs for disabilities, adult daycare, autism, substance abuse and housing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026
The fleecing of Kevin, who ProPublica agreed to identify by first name only, was a textbook example of pig butchering.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2025
“Not suckering me here, are you, Jace? Tell you what, how about fleecing me for one pound?”
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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