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- noun Plural form of
extortionist .
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Examples
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Then those pesky pensioners could make it on theirown. get rid of leftist extortionists is wealth creation.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Assessing the Chrysler Bankruptcy 2010
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But other killings in the past year appear to have been carried out by shadowy forces who have left bodies along highways or hanging from bridges with handwritten notes that advertise the dead as "extortionists" or "kidnappers."
In Mexico, a legal breakdown invites brutal justice Nick Miroff 2010
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But other killings in the past year appear to have been carried out by shadowy forces who have left bodies along highways or hanging from bridges with handwritten notes that advertise the dead as "extortionists" or "kidnappers."
In Mexico, a legal breakdown invites brutal justice Nick Miroff 2010
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These landed proprietors became the worst kind of extortionists, and forced the poor Saints to pay them large advances for every acre of land that was settled, and nothing could be called free from the control of the money power of the rich and headstrong
The Mormon Menace The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite Alfred Henry Lewis 1885
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But other killings in the past year appear to have been carried out by shadowy forces who have left bodies along highways or hanging from bridges with handwritten notes that advertise the dead as "extortionists" or "kidnappers."
Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post Nick Miroff 2010
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Prostitutes, blackmailers, drug pushers, and extortionists mentor the advertisers and teach them the trade.
Addictions Bill Yarrow 2011
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They are extortionists and kidnappers waiting for a ransom to be paid!
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The extortionists in Clay County ask for no extra fee for allowing a person from another state to register their car in SD.
Page 2 2009
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Some of the popes who passed these laws down were married or polygamous; some were rapists, sluts, pimps, murderers, mass-murderers, extortionists, frauds, indulgence-peddlers, thieves, politicians and cheats.
Michele Somerville: Pentecost: The Flaming Dove Of Upper Room Roman Catholicism Michele Somerville 2011
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Some of the popes who passed these laws down were married or polygamous; some were rapists, sluts, pimps, murderers, mass-murderers, extortionists, frauds, indulgence-peddlers, thieves, politicians and cheats.
Michele Somerville: Pentecost: The Flaming Dove Of Upper Room Roman Catholicism Michele Somerville 2011
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