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cleaning (out)

verb

present participle of clean (out)

as in defrauding

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Marshall had been charged with defrauding his mother’s estate of millions by inducing her to change her will in his favor after her mental capacity had faded.

— Robert D. Mcfadden, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2026
Smith allegedly negotiated lease terms and collected deposits from victims across 15 Florida counties between July 1, 2025 and April 30, defrauding hunters out of thousands of dollars.

— CBS Miami Team, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of defrauding

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Ohio lawmakers approved an $875 million payment package Wednesday after the Ohio Supreme Court found the state used the wrong formula to calculate certain Medicaid reimbursements for nursing homes, shortchanging providers by hundreds of millions of dollars.

— Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 11 June 2026
Despite all of this, the market is still trying to figure out what Millrose is worth, and at around 9 times AFFO, Wall Street still might be shortchanging the REIT.

— Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 9 May 2026

Definition of shortchanging

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In this case, the reward was solving the ExploitGym questions and the hacking was literally hacking—cheating on the test and then hacking into Hugging Face in an effort to cover up the cheating (more on that below).

— Emily Forlini, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026
The Model 3 and Model Y adopted less elaborate press-and-pivot handles, helping give the cars their clean, wind-cheating profiles.

— Peter Lyon, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026

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