overcharge
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C. Meat packers are using “their position as middlemen to overcharge grocery stores and, ultimately, families.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025
The lack of transparency enables PBMs to overcharge patients and health plans.
From Salon ● May 31, 2025
The HUD figure, which is based on Census data for typical apartment rents in an area, is used to ensure landlords cannot overcharge low-income residents with housing choice vouchers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2025
Due to this capture, Google is able to overcharge text-ad clients and shroud its actual terms in secrecy in a way that it hasn’t with more visually oriented ads.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2024
Already what is known in California as a "weather breeder" seemed to overcharge the senses, and even as Isabel left the foothills for the the homeward down-grade spin she felt a change.
From The Higher Court by Mary Stewart Daggett
And earlier this year, a jury found that Live Nation was an illegal monopoly, following years of criticism that the company stifles competition and overcharges fans, but analysts say a breakup is unlikely.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
“The companies pulled their punches, and one company was left being the sole bidder on the contract and that involved a lot of overcharges to the good people of Texas,” Slater said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
“It overcharges people for the right to defend themselves in court.”
From Salon ● May 23, 2025
The email said Hurst & Son had been urged to stop those practices and refund overcharges.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 3, 2024
Persons of colourless imagination may hold—nor will we dispute their verdict—that Carlyle overcharges his lights and shades, and brings his heroes into too startling a contrast with the vulgar herd.
From Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) by Sir Leslie Stephen
"We've tried very hard to try and produce it, we've overcharged it as much as we can... We were unsuccessful in generating chromium-6."
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
Which? claims that since 2015 Apple has effectively locked users into its services and overcharged them as a result.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
If it did pay dividends on watered stock, the public assumed it was being overcharged.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
The jury also found that Live Nation overcharged fans by $1.72 per concert ticket.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 16, 2026
At the restaurant she insisted that the waitress had overcharged her for her milk shake, even though the price was right there on the menu.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
But universities got greedy and abused the system by overcharging the government for overhead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
I believe this is a legitimate case of timeshare overcharging.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 27, 2026
Live Nation, the entertainment giant which owns Ticketmaster, has been illegally operating as a monopoly and overcharging fans, a federal jury has found.
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026
She said the incident highlights what’s wrong with the system: overpolicing and overcharging for an outdated service.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025
The prosecutor is also free to file more charges against a defendant than can realistically be proven in court, so long as probable cause arguably exists—a practice known as overcharging.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
