fleeced

Example Sentences

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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

Six years later, the deal for George is considered tragically lopsided, the Clippers fleeced and forced to watch assets they surrendered lift the Oklahoma City Thunder to within three wins of an NBA championship.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2025

There’s Mamdani near Bryant Park, asking halal cart vendors how much they’d sell their $10 chicken-over-rice plates if they weren’t getting fleeced by permit farmers hoarding licenses from the city.

From Salon • May 1, 2025

Because if they were new to fixing, they could be fleeced.

From BBC • Sep. 9, 2024

It was instead that an ominous picture was congealing in his mind of patriot soldiers being fleeced by an army of speculators whose only loyalty was to their own profit margins.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis