profiteer
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They also would risk casting Saudi Arabia in the role of profiteer in a war it didn’t start.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
Mr Brown said organisers were "naturally disappointed" that some had "decided to try to profiteer" from Liverpool's staging of the event.
From BBC • Oct. 9, 2022
Often, he now ends favorable reviews with a plea to “bossman,” which can mean the owner or the person at the cash register, to resist the urge to profiteer.
From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2022
Meanwhile, Philadelphia abruptly cut off a vaccine clinic operator amid concerns that it had sought to profiteer from the work.
From Washington Times • Jan. 26, 2021
Oskar Schindler has been called many names: scoundrel, womanizer, war profiteer, drunk.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
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