scalping
Example Sentences
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He also stood next to Trump in the White House last year as the president signed an executive order on ticket scalping.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
Hit products generate the kind of buzz you might see only for a limited-edition sneaker or the latest iPhone, necessitating preorders or, when inventories inevitably dry up, leading to scalping.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2025
The events have sparked a conversation around ticket scalping in India, where people use bots or automation tools to bypass queues and purchase multiple tickets to sell on reselling platforms.
From BBC • Sep. 28, 2024
He also suggested that the biggest problems facing ticketing, like bots and scalping, were best tackled by Congress itself.
From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2023
Tell everybody, when you write your story, that they’re scalping our souls out here.”
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
