gouge
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The government says authorities have carried out raids and taken action against hoarders and black marketeers who are exploiting shortages to price gouge.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026
That doesn’t mean that the grocers can’t gouge shoppers.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2024
Formulaic demands of the PGA Tour, where bomb and gouge to receptive greens is such a profitable pursuit, were not the qualities required last week.
From BBC • Jul. 22, 2024
By 160 million years ago, lampreys were larger than ever before, actively swimming after fish to gouge out flesh from their prey like living ice cream scoops.
From National Geographic • Oct. 31, 2023
Mom and Lori admired the wide-planked floorboards, the big fireplaces, and the ceiling beams made from locust posts, with gouge marks from the ax that had felled them.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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