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
No sooner had Kim left than investigators began exploring rumors that he had used his powerful C.I.A. job to make a stock market killing and to mulct kickbacks from government contractors.
From Time Magazine Archive
Foes of stock speculation claim that a few insiders deceive and mulct the public.
From Time Magazine Archive
For a long time, Spain had paid but meagre attention to her American possessions, save to mulct them for revenue.
From The History of Cuba, vol. 2 by Willis Fletcher Johnson
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