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Recent Examples of extorted
The necessity of it to my defence against a more heinous charge could alone have extorted from me so painful an indecorum.
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Tracy Grant,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
26 June 2026
Richards attained fame as a pioneering male supermodel in major ad campaigns by the likes of Bruce Weber, Richard Avedon, and Helmut Newton, but all along he was being extorted and exploited by Mierers and his followers to bolster (and bankroll) their shaky, pseudoscientific philosophy.
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Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
16 June 2026
Cutaia, who has a criminal record dating back to the 1990s, extorted two businessmen starting in 2023 — even before his release from federal prison at the end of his 15-year sentence.
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John Annese,
New York Daily News,
15 June 2026
But Ancel Glink representatives said Odelson, Murphey, Frazier and McGrath overstepped by petitioning to represent Calumet City in both a labor dispute and a lawsuit where a former employee claims Jones extorted him and wrongfully terminated his employment.
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Olivia Stevens,
Chicago Tribune,
27 May 2026
The court found that the girl’s mother extorted thousands of dollars from Franco.
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Steve Henson,
Los Angeles Times,
26 May 2026
To dispose of his body, the group allegedly used a familiar method, placing it in a crematorium furnace in a local funeral home whose owner was being extorted by another Hells Angels member.
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Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
22 Apr. 2026
Kraken, one of the world’s oldest crypto exchanges, said it’s being extorted by a criminal group that claims to have access to some client account information.
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Olga Kharif,
Bloomberg,
13 Apr. 2026
At least three organizations have been extorted and suffered hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages after proprietary information was posted online by IT workers.
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Lisa Cavazuti,
NBC news,
15 Mar. 2026
Tracy Grant,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
26 June 2026
Richards attained fame as a pioneering male supermodel in major ad campaigns by the likes of Bruce Weber, Richard Avedon, and Helmut Newton, but all along he was being extorted and exploited by Mierers and his followers to bolster (and bankroll) their shaky, pseudoscientific philosophy.
—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
16 June 2026
Cutaia, who has a criminal record dating back to the 1990s, extorted two businessmen starting in 2023 — even before his release from federal prison at the end of his 15-year sentence.
—
John Annese,
New York Daily News,
15 June 2026
But Ancel Glink representatives said Odelson, Murphey, Frazier and McGrath overstepped by petitioning to represent Calumet City in both a labor dispute and a lawsuit where a former employee claims Jones extorted him and wrongfully terminated his employment.
—
Olivia Stevens,
Chicago Tribune,
27 May 2026
The court found that the girl’s mother extorted thousands of dollars from Franco.
—
Steve Henson,
Los Angeles Times,
26 May 2026
To dispose of his body, the group allegedly used a familiar method, placing it in a crematorium furnace in a local funeral home whose owner was being extorted by another Hells Angels member.
—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
22 Apr. 2026
Kraken, one of the world’s oldest crypto exchanges, said it’s being extorted by a criminal group that claims to have access to some client account information.
—
Olga Kharif,
Bloomberg,
13 Apr. 2026
At least three organizations have been extorted and suffered hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages after proprietary information was posted online by IT workers.
—
Lisa Cavazuti,
NBC news,
15 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for extorted
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Advertisement The conflict has also exacted a human price.
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Iran has demanded the right to collect money from ships using the strait, and in some cases has already exacted payment to let ships leave.
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Enterprises that route requests between multiple models can be coerced into selecting the weakest route.
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The study was later shut down after an internal review confirmed that patients were coerced into participating.
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The performance uptick that Motorola squeezed from the 2026 Razr+ is minor at best, with results showing no significant year-over-year gains.
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There was Paris squeezed between meetings on a fleeting work trip.
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Until the last drop congeals and the last pearl is wrung out.
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Lindsay is eternally clocking in to do her job, to make sure that the sponge of this show has been so thoroughly wrung that there is not even a droplet of drama left inside.
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Amid the fallout, Honarkar lost possession of most of his properties, including the historic Hotel Laguna, where a public scuffle had broken out in 2023 between his security team and guards working for the partner who wrested control of the landmark.
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That was when microbes wrested energy from light and, in the process, breathed new life into the world.
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The attack forced hundreds of migrants to seek shelter in churches and mosques, according to state broadcaster SABC.
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But the Department of Homeland Security let go a third of CISA employees in 2025 through buyouts, early retirements, forced reassignments and sweeping layoffs.
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At his sentencing in 2024, Bailyn, the prosecutor, described Lorquet as a greedy criminal who fleeced his country at one of its weakest moments in history.
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The lesson from the parking deal is not merely that the city got fleeced by private investors.
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“Extorted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extorted. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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