rigged
Example Sentences
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The auction is rigged not for the buyer or the seller but for the auctioneer.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026
“We didn’t just want to have this as a rigged game.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026
Polymarket users suggested the map had been rigged, zeroing in on a bet in which an anonymous user turned $62 into more than $6,700 shortly before the Myrnohrad market was resolved.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2026
Museveni took up arms after a rigged election in 1980 and led a guerrilla insurgency known as the Ugandan Bush War that finally captured Kampala in 1986.
From Barron's • Jan. 17, 2026
Like every other asset-backed bond trader, he’d been playing a low-stakes poker game rigged in his favor, since nothing had ever gone seriously wrong in the market.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
