Thesaurus results for SWINDLED

swindled

verb

past tense of swindle

as in cheated

to rob by the use of trickery or threats hundreds of people were swindled out of their savings, and all they had to show for it were fake land deeds

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Recent Examples of swindled And there’s little reasonable about looking the other way when residents say they’re being swindled or when the state’s constitution is being violated. — Scott Maxwell, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Oct. 2026 At one point, Fred was swindled out of upward of $15,000 when someone pretended to be the owner of a house for sale that Fred wanted to buy. — Megan Rose, ProPublica, 9 Sep. 2026 Holdo swindled 32 victims out of hundreds of thousands of dollars for Rolex watches that never existed, authorities said. — City News Service, Oc Register, 2 Sep. 2026 Other gamblers just don’t want to get swindled, so anything that smacks too clearly of insider trading can get you in trouble. — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2026 While the men whom Chen allegedly swindled began to grow suspicious of her actions around 2024, the Clark County Marriage Bureau reported her to the police, resulting in the launch of an investigation around the same time. — Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 16 June 2026 Aller swindled deal after deal on 2022 draft night, garnering future draft picks and getting off enough salary to sign Brunson and more. — Fred Katz, New York Times, 26 May 2026 After over a decade of partnership, Tesla CEO Elon Musk is suing OpenAI CEO Sam Altman for more than $130 billion, alleging that Altman and OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman swindled him and betrayed the company’s founding charitable mission. — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 27 Apr. 2026 Holder was one of thousands of Americans swindled out of a total estimated at $20 billion by way of cyber theft in 2025, according to the FBI. — Anna Schecter, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026

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As Gabe yells that Morgan cheated and broke up the family, a grin starts to spread across Nick’s and Serena’s faces.

— Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2026
The Dubas front office cheated for offence in a sense too, deciding to buck the trend by building from centre ice backwards and not drafting/developing top d-men.

— James Mirtle, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of cheated

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Quickly, the house lights come up, and Lay and family are hustled backstage to get reacquainted.

— Joan Kron, Allure, 28 Sep. 2026
Her mother hustled her to hospital, only for the doctors to realize Accurso’s active imagination had left her in the same predicament as Madeline’s friends.

— CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 15 Sep. 2026

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During fall, a train window serves as the perfect perch for leaf-peeping in river valleys aglow in crimson and gold or passing through small towns that look like they’ve been plucked from a Hallmark movie.

— Lauren Dana Ellman, Midwest Living, 15 Oct. 2026
As the party winded down, guests plucked final bites off silver platters and marveled at how tall Skarsgård truly is in person—his nearly six-foot-five frame barely fit under the bar’s low ceilings.

— Kenneal Patterson, Vanity Fair, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of plucked

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All of a sudden, Bass was a staggering champion lunging at a revived Raman, who swung and stung and ducked the way only a hungry up-and-comer can.

— Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
The loss to Ole Miss three weeks ago stung, but was not unexpected.

— Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2026

Definition of stung

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In Malabo, Bioko’s biggest city, a team of men and women equipped with insecticide sprayers squeezed between low-rise cement buildings on a recent morning, as heavy rain drummed on aluminum roofs.

— ABC News, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2026
Elevated borrowing rates and refinancing challenges (registration required) have squeezed an already difficult landscape for development financing.

— Jill Jones, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of squeezed

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Fraud victims file civil lawsuit Eleven of the victims that were defrauded in the Ponzi scheme filed a civil lawsuit in August against an affiliate brokerage firm of MassMutual, a financial services company.

— Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 16 Oct. 2026
Jeffrey Royer was an FBI agent from 1996 to 2001 and defrauded investors by falsely representing how their funds would be used and fabricating documents about their investments' performance, according to the district attorney's office.

— Karma Sabbah, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of defrauded

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