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launder

[lawn-der, lahn-] / ˈlɔn dər, ˈlɑn- /


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"This is going to launder bad intelligence and bad data," she remembers arguing publicly.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Shell companies are dangerous because they are used both by criminal organizations to evade sanctions and launder money and by the rich to avoid taxes.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026

North Korea steals crypto to generate funds for the regime, and deploys its own bankers globally to launder ill-gotten gains, U.S. officials say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026

North Korea’s Lazarus Group External link, among the most sophisticated crypto-enabled criminal organizations in the world, relied heavily on the DeFi mixer Tornado Cash to launder funds.

From Barron's ● Feb. 5, 2026

I launder the napkins and tablecloths entirely at my own discretion.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control also designated three leaders and supporters of an Iran-aligned militia in Iraq, Kataib Hezbollah, as well as a business that it says moves and launders funds for the organization.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 22, 2024

“Today, Treasury is sanctioning Tornado Cash, a virtual currency mixer that launders the proceeds of cybercrimes, including those committed against victims in the United States,” Nelson said.

From The Verge ● Aug. 8, 2022

But the game launders this good idea into a bad one by making many enemies invulnerable unless your character has reached a certain level.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2020

Bethany launders them in-house and places them in a tub in the entryway, for workers to don each day after taking their temperature and passing a screening.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 3, 2020

Most people make two launders, in order that while the workman empties one of them of the accumulation which has settled in it, a fresh deposit may be settling in the other.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola

Operation Jackal IV - which took place between November 2025 and June 2026 - investigated how the groups laundered money and how financial fraud cyber crimes, such as cryptocurrency and email compromise fraud, were conducted.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

When you’ve done that, you can start to feel the excitement of owning a freshly laundered $100 bill.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

Shehu laundered money through property—including the peninsula in Zvernec—that was stolen using techniques such as forged Ottoman-era land records, prosecutors said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

The whole letter is Bezos’ grievance talking, laundered through one of his fixers.

From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2026

I know what this change of uniform means; every so often I had been told in the other camp that my clothes would be laundered, disinfected and returned to me.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper

The laundering highlights a divide in the crypto industry over who bears responsibility when criminals use its technology, especially when it comes to decentralized services whose creators say aren’t controlled by any one person.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026

Nuño, 53, has been charged with three counts of wire fraud and one count of money laundering, according to the Department of Justice.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

After leaving office he was swept up in a 2014 anti-corruption probe, convicted of corruption and money laundering and in 2018 was sentenced to 12 years in prison.

From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2026

French investigators have previously examined his real-estate holdings near Paris as part of a probe into alleged money laundering and rosewood trafficking, though the case was dropped in 2023 due to insufficient evidence.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

So while Osage boys at other institutions learned farming and carpentry, Mollie was trained in the “domestic arts”: sewing, baking, laundering, and housekeeping.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann


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