mulct
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Time Warner figured it could mulct the other pay-TV companies for every last dime because, really, what TV service would dare not carry the Dodgers, whatever the price?
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2022
“Existing at the pleasure of the advertisers, to mulct the public, gratifying their stupidity, and render some small advance on investment to the owners, offering putative employment to their etiolated, wastrel sons.”
From Washington Post • Mar. 6, 2018
The racketeers, known to Tin Pan Alley as the "song sharks," mulct their victims�amateur songwriters�for amounts up to $100 apiece.
From Time Magazine Archive
By hook and crook, he manages to mulct $3,000,000 in hush money.
From Time Magazine Archive
An evil result from the public point of view followed from the system of atoning for crime by pecuniary mulct.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various
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