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- verb Present participle of
extort .
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Examples
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Oh yeah, because a few sleazy people succeeded in extorting him and he had a skin disease and that reflects poorly on him for some reason.
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He insisted that all the groups fighting over the matatu termini control were cartels interested in extorting money from genuine operators.
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Rose also testified that after the Rangers were rejected by the police, Reverend John Fry advised them to begin extorting merchants.
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Rose also testified that after the Rangers were rejected by the police, Reverend John Fry advised them to begin extorting merchants.
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Rose also testified that after the Rangers were rejected by the police, Reverend John Fry advised them to begin extorting merchants.
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His prudence, or his pride, was content with extorting from the French princes an oath of homage and fidelity, and a solemn promise, that they would either restore, or hold, their Asiatic conquests as the humble and loyal vassals of the Roman empire.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765
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His prudence, or his pride, was content with extorting from the French princes an oath of homage and fidelity, and a solemn promise, that they would either restore, or hold, their Asiatic conquests as the humble and loyal vassals of the Roman empire.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Thus did God magnify divine revelation and make it honourable, extorting from a proud potentate such a veneration but for one glimpse of it.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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"You exact all your dues, your debts" (so some read it); "you are as rigorous and severe in extorting what you demand from those that are poor as ever you were, though it was at the close of the yearly fast that the release was proclaimed."
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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His prudence, or his pride, was content with extorting from the French princes an oath of homage and fidelity, and a solemn promise, that they would either restore, or hold, their Asiatic conquests as the humble and loyal vassals of the Roman empire.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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