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  • noun Plural form of extorter.

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Examples

  • This "heavily armed group provided protection to leaders of the criminal gang ... and presumably worked as extorters, kidnappers and killers in addition to transporting, buying and selling drugs," the statement said.

    Mexico arrests man linked to U.S. agent's death 2011

  • I was shaking with anger on the phone to the extorters, so my wife had to take over and talk to E. on and then the extorters again.

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  • VELEZ-MITCHELL: Stacy Honowitz, why would these alleged extorters think that that would be something that the Travoltas would be willing to pay $25 million to keep a secret?

    CNN Transcript Jan 27, 2009 2009

  • The extorters refused to perform halizah even if they were married.

    Halakhic Decisions on Family Matters in Medieval Jewish Society. 2009

  • In that case, society faces a threat from unbridled extorters.

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  • And we ought to prosecute the people who are the extorters.

    CNN Transcript Jul 27, 2003 2003

  • He was confident the brass would buy his pitch; undercover agents like himself, Dellray had learned, are among the best persuaders—and extorters—in the world.

    The Stone Monkey Jeffery Deaver 2002

  • He was confident the brass would buy his pitch; undercover agents like himself, Dellray had learned, are among the best persuaders—and extorters—in the world.

    The Stone Monkey Jeffery Deaver 2002

  • He was confident the brass would buy his pitch; undercover agents like himself, Dellray had learned; are among the best persuaders — and extorters — in the world.

    The Stone Monkey Deaver, Jeffery 2002

  • He was confident the brass would buy his pitch; undercover agents like himself, Dellray had learned, are among the best persuaders—and extorters—in the world.

    The Stone Monkey Jeffery Deaver 2002

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