gouge

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

Etzebeth later posted a video claiming his actions were a reaction to being struck by Mann and the gouge was not intentional.

From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2026

That doesn’t mean that the grocers can’t gouge shoppers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2024

Underwater footage appeared to show the plane partially afloat, with at least one wheel creating a gouge in the fragile coral.

From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2023

Because I can already tell: Things are more fair here, just because everything’s so fast that who’d have the time to stop and gouge a customer?

From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle

Crews have closed lanes 143 times in the last 5½ years, on urgent pothole-filling missions, when weekly inspections found gouges or holes in the deck, according to the Washington State Department of Transportation.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 19, 2024

As Earth’s climate has warmed, glaciers have rapidly melted in high mountain ranges across the globe, and the resulting water accumulates in unstable gouges cut by the glaciers as they retreat.

From Science Magazine ● Feb. 8, 2023

The gouges they make in pursuit of that meal also allow gasses and liquids to escape the body.

From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2022

After the event, officials noted that the memorial itself — then 98 years old — had sustained scratches and gouges in its pink marble floor, according to a final memorandum.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 13, 2022

Tiny saws, tacks, gouges, carving chisels, fine-gritted sandpapers.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

More than 1,400 people are missing and at least 552 have been killed after a devastating, tsunami-like wall of water gouged a path through the border region between Nepal and Tibet, sweeping away entire villages.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

“And I think at this stage, fans couldn’t feel less welcome. I don’t think anyone this time was expecting transport to be free. But we weren’t expecting to be gouged, either.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026

Replacing the gouged front bumper was a $1,100 job and Mandell would’ve paid the first $500.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 23, 2025

Someone had gouged out the two S’s in a Cesar Chavez quote about “drawing the goodne...” out of students.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025

The handles had gouged deep grooves in his fingers.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Some viewers used screenshots of the offer to accuse JapanLA of gouging.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

This would include waiving of taxes on animal feed inputs, as well as "active retail price monitoring to deter opportunity price gouging and rationing".

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

The Competition and Markets Authority said in May there was no widespread evidence of price gouging in the weeks after the conflict.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

“Because of this, charging inflated prices on necessities is considered price gouging and profiteering against vulnerable incarcerated population who have no ability to refuse or shop elsewhere.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

Almost every night he’d tell us a new horror story about some macho moron driving a go-fast boat aground and gouging a hundred-yard scar across the turtle grass.

From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen