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“You’re outpacing inflation, which is good, but you’re not going to make a killing off it,” says Cory Windelspecht.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

The documentary “The Pez Outlaw” follows the adventures of Steve Glew, a Michigan man who tried to make a killing by trafficking in rare European Pez dispensers until he ran afoul of the company bureaucracy.

From Washington Post • Oct. 20, 2022

He positions himself to make a killing selling life itself, describing the resource wars he sees coming with concern that can’t be uncoupled from capitalist scheming.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2022

Distributed domestically by United Artists Releasing via MGM and EON, the latest installment in the James Bond franchise squarely met expectations in North American markets this weekend while continuing to make a killing overseas.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2021

I dont want to make a killing; save that to suck in the smart gamblers with.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner




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