fly-by-night
Example Sentences
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State subsidies are paid directly to child-care providers, which could enable fraudsters to set up fly-by-night day care to bilk the government.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026
A fly-by-night journalism outlet called BNN Breaking had used an A.I. chatbot to paraphrase an article from another news site, according to a BNN employee.
From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2024
Some are on fly-by-night commercial websites that reveal little information about who runs them or the technology they’re based on.
From Seattle Times • May 23, 2024
Among the few places that would hire a kid with a ninth-grade education was a fly-by-night New Jersey telemarketing firm called Civic Development Group, or CDG.
From Salon • Aug. 27, 2023
Those jars were something you might expect to find in the basement of a fly-by-night medical school, not a house full of children.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
