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"etymology_text": "From the character named Fagin in Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist.",
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"ref": "1947, California News - Volumes 63-67, page 104",
"text": "The indignation of the self-respecting deaf is aroused by the fact that nine-tenths of the mendicant peddling is engineered by slick Fagins who teach inexperienced deaf youths the tricks of the trade and then collect the lion's share of the profits.",
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"ref": "1967, Public Hearing: Subject: Licensing of Private Facilities, page 14",
"text": "We sort of treat a situation whereby the proprietor or operator or person running a foster home, if he were to make a profit, we sort of regard him as sort of a Fagin because he has been making money off little kids.",
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"ref": "2009, Problems of Education, page 70",
"text": "Each such group exercises a formative influence on the active dispositions of its members. A clique, a club, a gang, a Fagin's household of thieves, the prisoners in a jail, provide educative environments for those who enter into their collective or conjoint activities, as truly as a church, a labour union, a business partnership, or a political party.",
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"ref": "2010, Graham Vickers, Neal Cassady: The Fast Life of a Beat Hero",
"text": "A few of its occupants were poor, law-abiding folk just trying to get by peaceably, but it was a heaven-sent recruiting center for Jack and Ralph who, Neal said, ran a Fagin-like academy for aspiring pickpockets, sneak thieves, and burglars.",
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"ref": "2013, Charles Samuel, Ghost of Honor, page 177",
"text": "At Midwest there is a Fagin character, Quinton, who is running a school for terrorists or something on that order.",
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"ref": "2016 May 23, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “Apocalypse pits the strengths of the X-Men series against the weaknesses”, in The Onion AV Club",
"text": "Apocalypse also happens to be a Fagin figure, shuffling around the back alleys of Cairo, where he makes the weather-controlling pickpocket Storm (Alexandra Shipp) his first follower by offering her baubles.",
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"A person who entices children into criminal activity, often teaching them how to conduct those crimes, and profits from their crimes in return for support."
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