bilked

Example Sentences

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Musk had alleged that OpenAI bilked him by abandoning the nonprofit corporate structure he had invested in.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

From those schools, 10 teachers were bilked out of roughly $7,000 in credit card charges, Ware said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2025

Others fell for the ruse and were bilked out of a few hundred dollars.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 30, 2023

Attorney General Kris Mayes and Gov. Katie Hobbs in May announced a massive investigation into billing fraud that state officials say has bilked Arizona out of hundreds of millions of Medicaid dollars.

From Washington Times • Oct. 19, 2023

I knew there would be warrants and commotion, the deal having flopped and a lot of prominent citizens feeling as if they had been bilked.

From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Hecht, Ben