stacked deck
Example Sentences
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It seems whenever I write about structural power and privilege, people who benefit most from those systems respond that they are now victims of an unfairly stacked deck.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 27, 2023
However, the professor’s central assertion remains strong: that the solidarity of kinship is a stacked deck.
From Salon • Jun. 24, 2018
Despite that stacked deck, he notched at least 18 wins six times and topped 200 innings 11 times.
From Washington Post • Jan. 23, 2018
The movie’s evident sympathy for them at times shades toward sentimentality, and the story that emerges from their hustling and scoring is dealt from a stacked deck.
From New York Times • May 14, 2015
In his not terribly clean uniform, wearing knee-high Cretan boots, Captain Kontoulis scrutinized running lights, stacked deck chairs, lifeboats.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
