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  • verb Present participle of mulct.

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Examples

  • The system you see today is nothing but a prolonged mulcting of students and their parents.

    Matthew Yglesias » Open Source Textbooks 2009

  • That is, unless Mr. Dayton saved the day by mulcting $2.7 billion more in taxes from higher-income taxpayers.

    Minnesotans Shrug Off the Shutdown David Strom 2011

  • Kabul was saturated with state officials executing a personal hoarding scheme, but Qandahar also became a prime target of Abd al-Rahman's mulcting agenda.

    Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

  • He insists, however, that the benevolent side, the “middle class tax cuts”, will go forward, without mulcting “the rich” to offset them.

    Barack and Taxes 2008

  • He insists, however, that the benevolent side, the “middle class tax cuts”, will go forward, without mulcting “the rich” to offset them.

    Stromata Blog: 2008

  • Although this statement lakes nuance and makes too bold a contrast, Abd al-Rahman's penchant for mulcting the commercial classes in Afghanistan was well known to British officials.

    Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

  • What went down at Madoff Investment Securities is zilch compared to the moral dubiousness of the Great Geithner Giveaway, which is shaping up to be the biggest mulcting of an innocent polity in recorded history.

    Of Goldman, Geithner and Grifters 2009

  • What went down at Madoff Investment Securities is zilch compared to the moral dubiousness of the Great Geithner Giveaway, which is shaping up to be the biggest mulcting of an innocent polity in recorded history.

    Of Goldman, Geithner and Grifters 2009

  • The AAA oversaw production controls and approved marketing agreements that immunized food processors from prosecution under the antitrust laws in exchange for guaranteeing prices to farmers and not mulcting consumers.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Dan Ernst 2008

  • The AAA oversaw production controls and approved marketing agreements that immunized food processors from prosecution under the antitrust laws in exchange for guaranteeing prices to farmers and not mulcting consumers.

    Jerome Frank Hires Some Lawyers, Part I Dan Ernst 2008

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