profiteering

Example Sentences

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We can halt low-wage worker abuses and evasions, raise the minimum wage, crack down on landlord profiteering, rebuild the labor movement and redistribute government assistance.

From Washington Post

Sugar became so integral to European profiteering that it started being produced on a global scale.

From Salon

The president also accused oil companies of profiteering and warned them not to gouge prices as American are grappling with inflation.

From New York Times

The lowered gas prices were a key talking point for President Biden, who made claims about the price declines over the summer and accused energy companies of profiteering on American consumers.

From New York Times

The chapter on Johnnie Taylor’s “Cheaper to Keep Her,” for example, is mainly an indictment of the lawyers whose profiteering of heartbreak drives the divorce “industry.”

From New York Times