bilked
Example Sentences
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Federal prosecutors say dozens of people bilked taxpayers by setting up scam social-services companies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 2025
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
Prosecutors say he bilked insurance companies out of hundreds of millions of dollars.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 3, 2024
The best proof of this wholesomeness is that Masayoshi Son, who lost billions on WeWork, said after the fact that he still loved and respected the founder who had bilked him.
From Slate • Nov. 8, 2023
All the way down, according to his common practice, he bilked the public-houses, and at last arriving at Doncaster, began to set heartily about the work for which he came down.
From Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences by Hayward, Arthur L.
