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Verb
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Bankowski and Bankowska both face up to 20 years in prison for defrauding buyers out of at least $2 million.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
29 Apr. 2026 -
Two New Jersey residents pleaded guilty to running a years-long counterfeit art scheme that funneled fake works into the legitimate market, defrauding buyers of at least $2 million.—
Daniel Cassady,
ARTnews.com,
28 Apr. 2026
Verb
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The Hall of Fame, in fact, did nothing to combat its history of shortchanging female performers.—
Dan Kelly
April 14,
Kansas City Star,
14 Apr. 2026
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Something that reflects how Dan Fogelman’s show is no longer behaving like a straightforward postapocalypse story and how this season’s narrative slips and slides through the timeline, increasingly shortchanging the series creator’s innate preference for sincerity.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
16 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Fred, their oldest surviving child, was suspended from Princeton for cheating, then caught embezzling from his Seattle employer to feed, Church suspected, a gambling habit.—
Sebastian Smee,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Court documents state the Matthews were there to get the children after a fight between Ashley and Pouncey over cheating.—
Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
3 May 2026
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“Cleaning (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cleaning%20%28out%29. Accessed 4 May. 2026.
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