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cleaning (out)

verb

present participle of clean (out)

as in defrauding

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Those concerns are particularly acute with someone like Holmes, who was convicted of defrauding investors through an elaborate web of deception.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2026
Holmes is serving an 11-year sentence for defrauding Theranos investors at a federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas, roughly a two-hour drive from Austin.

— Bilin Lin, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of defrauding

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The sixth season has been able to have its cake and eat it, too, ramping up the action without shortchanging viewers on spy craft and intrigue.

— Scott Tobias, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2026
What’s worse is the scene that follows, revealing the clean-up of multiple bodies and an elaborate rewriting of the narrative that strains credulity to put it mildly, not to mention shortchanging the Mexican characters.

— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026

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With all respect to West’s previous cheating-on-television canon, War might be his finest adulterous work.

— Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 24 Oct. 2026
Wood was vindicated three years later, when a league investigation revealed the Astros had been cheating in 2017, stealing signs from a television monitor next to the dugout and relaying them to batters by banging on trash cans.

— Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026

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