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Webster Dictionary

  1. Gouging

    of Bouge

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. gouging

    In ship-building (see SNAIL-CREEPING). Also, a cruel practice in one or two American states, now extremely rare, in which a man's eye was squeezed out by his rival's thumb-nail, the fingers being entangled in the hair for the necessary purchase.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of gouging in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of gouging in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of gouging in a Sentence

  1. Brad Gerstman:

    There's nothing illegal about selling hand sanitizer, gloves or masks. He claims he wasn't gouging and that evidence of that will be laid out in the coming court proceedings.

  2. Chuck Schumer:

    The U.S. is a major oil producer. We only get one percent of imports from Russia, the real problem with gas prices is gouging and monopolies. Democrats are focused on those two issues. We are focused very strongly. You’re going to hear a lot more from us on those issues in the future.

  3. Sean Patrick Maloney:

    That's part of the strategy of the Inflation Reduction Act. And all of these strategies together - together with going after price gouging ,by the way, because these big oil companies are making a fortune off of Putin's war and the rest. We've got to make sure people aren't profiting off the war. All of these strategies together can help bring prices down.

  4. Antroinette Worsham:

    I'm crying out asking Congress to review the pharmaceutical price gouging, type 1 diabetics need insulin to live or they'll die like my daughter.

  5. Elizabeth Warren:

    This isn’t about inflation. This is about price gouging for these guys. So I get it. When we see prices go up we’re all concerned and the Republicans want to come in and just try to hammer on one theme about this economy but we got to pay attention to the fact that folks like the oil companies say I think it’s just another opportunity to make profits and we need to call them out on that.

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