How to Use price gouging in a Sentence

price gouging

noun
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  • At the very least, the bereaved deserve peace from price gouging.
    — Nick Rockel, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2024
  • For example, price gouging, supply chain kinks, the war in Ukraine.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 19 Mar. 2023
  • At the moment, the legal system may be the only route to address the current spate of insulin price gouging.
    — Danielle Ofri, STAT, 20 Jan. 2023
  • But the state of emergency, put in place along with Kentucky's price gouging laws, will allow a more broad response to the flooding.
    — Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal, 19 July 2023
  • Oil execs rake in profits Are the gas companies price gouging?
    — The Week Staff, The Week, 3 July 2022
  • No retailers have been cited for price gouging, Tong said.
    — Ted Glanzer, Hartford Courant, 6 June 2022
  • First-ever federal ban on price gouging on food and groceries.
    — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2024
  • Reckless spending plus price gouging equals inflation and a high cost of living.
    — The Denver Post, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Democrats have decried the price gouging by some institutions with little to show for students.
    — Michael B. Horn, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The office's ads have covered topics such as Medicaid fraud, opioids, child abuse and price gouging.
    — Michael R. Wickline, Arkansas Online, 31 July 2022
  • Most states have laws intended to curb price gouging, with many of these restrictions tied to declared states of emergency.
    — Annie Nova, NBC News, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Food wholesalers, too, were accused of price gouging, to the point that a 1917 grand jury in Baltimore vowed to indict anyone holding on to foodstuffs to raise prices.
    — Christina Tkacik, Baltimore Sun, 26 May 2022
  • Trump and his allies have framed Harris’s economic plan to ban price gouging as a form of communist price controls.
    — Mabinty Quarshie, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Kentucky last year applied its existing price gouging rules to health care staffing agencies.
    — Bram Sable-Smith, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Callers to the hearing voiced frustration with the utilities, which one ratepayer accused of price gouging.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Some politicians even blame corporate price gouging for the inflated prices.
    — Alice Barlow, Fortune, 10 Nov. 2023
  • It's driven by corporate greed and consumer price gouging.
    — CBS News, 4 Aug. 2024
  • And even some Democratic economists don’t endorse the attack on price gouging.
    — Richard McGahey, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Industry leaders argue that higher gas prices are the result of the immutable forces of global supply and demand—not price gouging.
    — Justin Worland, Time, 19 May 2022
  • Making the flight controllers in Ukraine removes the potential supply bottleneck, and eliminates the risk of price gouging.
    — David Hambling, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Outside of issues on the primary market, to try and stop price gouging from scalpers on resale, Bryan opted to make his tickets non-transferable.
    — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2023
  • One of the challenges around accusing companies of price gouging — and promising to address it — is that the term means different things to different people.
    — Amelia Lucas,melissa Repko, CNBC, 29 Sep. 2024
  • Price shocks have hit everything from eggs and meat to car parts, with experts pointing to corporate price gouging as a major contributor to the crisis.
    — Amelia Keyes, The Mercury News, 23 May 2024
  • In Paris, for example, opposition to the games has been significant, driven in part by frustration over the traffic and price gouging that comes with the influx of fans.
    — Adam Minter, The Mercury News, 12 July 2024
  • Magaziner contended that inflation was driven by price gouging by big oil companies and the war in the Ukraine.
    — Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Nov. 2022
  • With egg prices more than doubling in the past year, calls are coming for an investigation into possible price gouging.
    — Josh Funk, Fortune, 25 Jan. 2023
  • For those programs in dire straits, helmets may still be available via third-party suppliers online, but massive demand has led to price gouging.
    — Nate Weitzer, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Railing against corporate greed and price gouging has been central to his campaign strategy.
    — Dustin Guastella, The New Republic, 19 June 2023
  • Under the state of emergency, consumers can report price gouging to the state Attorney General.
    — Leo Bertucci, The Courier-Journal, 15 Jan. 2024
  • That was before Las Vegas earned its well-deserved reputation for price gouging.
    — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2024

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