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rip-off

noun as in trick; robbery

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“FICO, and any other monopoly who has ripped off Americans for decades, should not be using improper efforts to threaten regulators,” he wrote on X.

I yelled for Joyce to grab a fire extinguisher and ripped off my towel to smother the blaze.

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It's a ripping off the bandage moment, which the Palace will hope will finally draw a line under the endless oil slick of bad news stories about Andrew.

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Elephants around Lake Manyara in Tanzania were killing acacia trees by ripping off bark and leaving “pale ghostly white trunks.”

If I’m going to run again, I’m going to rip off the Constitution’s head and s**t down its neck.’”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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